Device and method for the storage and retrieval of inflection information for electronic reference products
First Claim
1. A method for providing inflection information related to a given word in an electronic reference device having a memory portion comprising the steps of:
- providing information representing all inflected forms of a word which are to be considered, said inflected forms including allowed endings of said word;
forming information representing a stem portion of said word consisting of a prefix which is longest and is the same in all of said inflected forms of the word;
forming information representing a list of all allowed endings, designated as ending sets, of said inflected forms of the word;
assigning a unique number to each ending set;
storing information representing said stem portion of the word in a memory portion 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, said sequence including characters used to specify the part of speech and grammatical information.
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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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18 Claims
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1. A method for providing inflection information related to a given word in an electronic reference device having a memory portion comprising the steps of:
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providing information representing all inflected forms of a word which are to be considered, said inflected forms including allowed endings of said word; forming information representing a stem portion of said word consisting of a prefix which is longest and is the same in all of said inflected forms of the word; forming information representing a list of all allowed endings, designated as ending sets, of said inflected forms of the word; assigning a unique number to each ending set; storing information representing said stem portion of the word in a memory portion 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, said sequence including characters used to specify the part of speech and grammatical information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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- 14. In a method of storage of separately encoded streams of Huffman symbols, the improvement comprising the step of merging elements of said separate streams into a single stream having a certain order in which said order of said symbols depends on a logical order in which said symbols, when decoded, are to be displayed.
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18. An electronic reference device for providing inflection information related to a given word comprising:
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means for providing information signals representing all inflected forms of a word which are to be considered, said inflected forms including allowed endings of said word; means for forming information signals representing a stem portion of said word consisting of a prefix which is longest and is the same in all of said forms of the word; means for forming information signals representing a list of all allowed endings, designated as ending sets, of said forms of the word; means for assigning a signal representing a unique number to each ending set; means for storing information signals representing the stem portion of the word in a memory portion arranged in a predetermined manner; and means, responsive to said assigning means, for storing information signals representing a sequence of characters in a memory portion corresponding to each ending set number followed by a termination character, said sequence including characters used to specify the part of speech and grammatical information.
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