Device and method for the storage and retrieval of inflection in

Details Device and method for the storage and retrieval of inflection in Device and method for the storage and retrieval of inflection in

1991-01-04

1993-07-20

Envall, Jr., Roy N.

Boots, shoes, and leggings

G06F 1520

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052299368

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus stores and retrieves inflected forms of words in electronic reference products and, in particular, in electronic dictionaries, electronic bilingual dictionaries, electronic thesauri and an electronic Bible. The method is for providing inflection information related to a given word in an electronic reference device having a memory portion comprises the steps of providing information representing all of the forms of a word whose inflections are to be considered, forming information representing as stem of the word consisting of the longest prefix that is the same in all of the forms of the word, forming information representing a list of all of the allowed endings, designated as ending sets, of the forms of the word, assigning a unique number to each ending set, storing information representing the stem portion of the word in a memory arranged in a predetermined manner, and storing information representing a sequence of characters in a memory portion corresponding to each ending set number followed by a termination character. The sequence includes characters used to specify the part of speech and grammatical information.

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