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Apparatus and computerised method for determining constituent words of a compound word

  • US 20050222998A1
  • Filed: 03/30/2005
  • Published: 10/06/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for determining constituent words of a compound word, the apparatus comprising:

  • a document collection;

    means for determining, from the document collection, a number of documents containing the compound word;

    means for determining, from the document collection, a number of documents containing constituent words constituting the compound word;

    means for determining a ratio between the number of documents containing the compound word and the number of documents containing the constituent words constituting the compound word; and

    means for splitting the compound word into the constituent words when the ratio is smaller than a threshold value.

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