Footnotes

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It should also be noted though that the features you can use when you write your own lexicon are not quite independent of the analyser. One, STEM, has a special meaning. Section 7 of the Morphological Analyser User Manual ([MA]) gives full details of how to write feature-sets and how they are used during analysis, including these special conventions.

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These filename conventions differ from those in the original MA. We have modified them so that the filenames are acceptable under MS-DOS, which wasn't so originally.

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Actually, which suffix to use is determined by the ending of the singular noun.

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On the mention of foreign languages, I think the Assistant could make a nice tool for those learning another language: type in a possibly wrong sentence and have it corrected. There are programs that do this already, such as O'Brien and Yazdani's Linger.

Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
Wed Feb 14 17:12:29 GMT 1996