Re: best method to perform operations on word lists

Francois Massion wrote:

That was a quick reply! Stemming and lemmatization are a known concept,
but I want to make this exercise language independant (the project I am
working on involves French, German and Polish as a matter of fact).
Therefore I cannot start to cut known characters from the end of a
word, it would be too time-consuming and unsafe.

I'll proceed first with the method described above which is probably
slow and not the most elegant but with some luck it'll work. I'll
report on the result...

I'm afraid there is no definable algorithm that you can use. What about
the following sample entries (Dutch words):

bi<->bis
de<->den
re<->ree
do<->doen
keer<->keren
etc...

I think you would need access to some dictionary files anyhow.

--
Bart

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