There is a lot of software doing this already. At the moment I recall a
bunch of Lingua:: Perl modules, jspell (a PT morphologicla analyzer) and
I am sure there are a lot more.
I wonder what comes next...
Alberto
John F. Sowa wrote:
> If anybody has been deriving the infinitive of a verb
> from a finite form, you may be violating a recent patent
> application by Microsoft. (However, I suspect that there
> may be prior art that had been published earlier.)
>
> Following is the title, abstract, and URL.
>
> John Sowa
> _________________________________________________________
>
> Source: http://tinyurl.com/e5g7y
>
> United States Patent Application 20060195313
>
> Voetberg; Eric J.; et al. August 31, 2006
>
> Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb
>
> Abstract
>
> A verb conjugating system allows a user to input a form of a verb and
> display the verb forms. The verb conjugating system allows the user to
> input the infinitive form or non-infinitive forms of a verb. When a user
> inputs a non-infinitive form of a verb, the verb conjugating system
> identifies a corresponding base form of the verb. The verb conjugating
> system then uses the base form to retrieve and display the verb forms
> for the verb. The verb conjugating system may highlight the
> non-infinitive form of the verb within the displayed verb forms to
> assist the user in locating the verb form of interest.
>
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Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga - Portugal
"Beware of bugs in the above code;
I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
--- Donald Knuth
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