From richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com Sun Mar 18 15:22:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 18 Mar 2001 23:22:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 75927 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2001 23:22:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 18 Mar 2001 23:22:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO s1.uklinux.net) (212.1.130.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 19 Mar 2001 00:23:11 -0000 Received: from rrbcurnow.freeuk.com (root@ppp-1-47.cvx4.telinco.net [212.1.148.47]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2INM3f11755 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:22:03 GMT Envelope-To: Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 2.02 #2) id 14elre-0000CL-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:41:30 +0000 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:41:30 +0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Breaking up compound cmavo Message-ID: <20010318224130.B106@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Reply-To: Richard Curnow Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <992t8s+mls7@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i-nntp In-Reply-To: ; from cowan@ccil.org on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:50:16PM -0500 Sender: Richard Curnow X-eGroups-From: Richard Curnow From: Richard Curnow On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:50:16PM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > seidensticker@msn.com scripsit: > > I'm trying to figure out how to divide cmavo that have been stuck > > together. For example, consider co'omi'e. The approach I'd taken > > was to compare the word against a sorted cmavo list, increasing the > > size of the extracted token character by character until I found an > > exact match. The problem with this is that after extracting "co", > > I'd have found a match and then would try to make sense out > > of "'omi'e" -- without success. > > Break in front of each consonant, that's all. FOr this purpose ' is > not a consonant. > Also, if any periods (full-stops) occur in the word, break at those too, as though they were a space. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard P. Curnow rpc@myself.com Weston-super-Mare United Kingdom http://go.to/richard.curnow/