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In text processing systems, German words require special treatment because of the possibility to form compound words as a combination of existing words. To this end, a universal word analysis system will be introduced which allows an analysis of all words in German texts according to their atomic components. A recursive decomposition algorithm, following the rules for word flexion, derivation, and compound generation in the German language, splits words into their smallest relevant parts (= atoms), which are stored in an atom table. The system is based on the foundations described in this article, and is being used for reliable, sense-conveying hyphenation, as well as for sense-conveying full text search, and in limited form also as a spelling checker.
This project was in part supported by Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien under the grant number H-75/99.
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Kodydek, G. (2000). A Word Analysis System for German Hyphenation, Full Text Search, and Spell Checking, with Regard to the Latest Reform of German Orthography. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45323-7_7
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