Method and computer system for the purpose of dismantling of composite words

摘要

The invention concerns a system for the automated analysis of words composed of several components. Such analyses are required, for example, for text correction or syllabification by means of a computer system. For this purpose, the computer system decomposes the compound word into its components and compares the compound word letter for letter with components stored in its memory. The memory also contains rank orders indicating a component's probability of occurrence in a compound word. If the computer finds a match between a stored component and letters of the compound word, it checks the probability of occurrence of this component within the compound word. By means of this probability information, the computer system decides whether the component is "correct" or "incorrect", i.e. whether the compound word has been correctly or incorrectly decomposed. Further information for verifying the decomposition of a compound word consists of a rank order stored in the memory of the computer system and indicating for each number of letters of a compound word the most probable number of components contained therein. Rank orders of the above-described kind are used by the computer system to decompose a compound into its components quickly and correctly. IMAGE