Recursive Decompounding in Afrikaans

Authors: Tilla Fick Chris Swanepoel

Publish Date: 2011/9/1

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 251-258

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Abstract

An algorithm has been developed to decompose compound words in Afrikaans This data driven technique recursively uses an extensive list of Afrikaans words in the decompounding process String fitting from the beginning and end of words forms the basis of the process while sublists containing short words that may occur only at the beginning or end of words and lists of prefixes and suffixes are utilised Applying the algorithm to the original lexicon of 182 433 words resulted in accuracy of 902 precision of 999 and recall of 836

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