A method is presented for splitting compound words into their constituents based on cognate words in the other language of a parallel corpus. A minor extension to the method using a bilingual lexicon (which may be statistically derived from the corpus) allows the decompounding of words that do not have cognates in the other language. Further, the algorithm can produce, as a by-product, a mappin...

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there are different processes to form new words in every language, including compounding, derivation, inflection, etc. in compounding, two lexical stems form a compound. in derivation and inflection, new words are coined by affixation or some phonetic changes. this kind of affixation is applied on the simple or compound stem. here our compound stem is a bound compound stem, consisting of a noun...

The subject intended to study the general methods of natural word-forming in Azeri Turkish language. This study aimed to reach this purpose by analyzing the construction of compound Azeri Turkish words. Same’ei (2016) did a comprehensive study on word-forming process in Farsi, which was the inspiration source of this study for Azeri Turkish language word-forming. Numerous scholars had done vari...

inthis paperwe try to study theprobability ofguessing themeaning ofwords without continuosly referring to thedictionary for translation.if this is a useful method,we can teach it to translators.the questions this research tries to answer are as follows:1)can we differentiate the different sorts of words(simple,compound and derivational words)intranslation inaway thatwe would nottneed to continu...