EP0316743A2
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Method for removing enclitic endings from verbs in romance languages
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1988-11-09
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2008-11-09
Abstract
Abstract Romance language verbs are frequently modified by the addition of pronouns called enclitic pronouns. The pronouns can only be added within prescribed grammatical constraints and affect the spelling and, sometimes, the accentuation of the verbs. Many linguistic processes for which automation is desirable, such as synonym look-up or grammatical analysis, require identification of the unmodified verb forms. The methods described herein make is possible to convert a verb modified by enclitic pronouns to its unmodified form.
Inventors
- 👤 Antonio Zamora
Bibliographic Details
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2026-11-01 08:01
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F40/00; G06F40/20; G06F40/268; G06F40/237; G06F40/242; G06F40/247; G06F40/253
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
171 words
A method for removing enclitic endings to identify the verb which was used to generate the enclitic form in a romance language, comprising the steps of: inputting a word from input word stream; comparing the word against a list of enclitic pronouns to determine the presence of a valid enclitic ending; comparing the word with a list of ambiguous words and producing an output word form when a match is made; accessing a dictionary to determine if the input word is a verb and accessing the corresponding paradigm to determine the verb form for the word, by matching the ending of the word against the ending specified in a paradigm table wherein endings that match are associated in the table with their corresponding grammatical forms, to determine if the verb form is one which can take enclitic endings, the lemma form of the verb being obtained by replacing the matched ending with ending for the infinitive; outputting said lemma representing the verb form of the word with the enclitic ending removed.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
171 words
A method for removing enclitic endings to identify the verb which was used to generate the enclitic form in a romance language, comprising the steps of: inputting a word from input word stream; comparing the word against a list of enclitic pronouns to determine the presence of a valid enclitic ending; comparing the word with a list of ambiguous words and producing an output word form when a match is made; accessing a dictionary to determine if the input word is a verb and accessing the corresponding paradigm to determine the verb form for the word, by matching the ending of the word against the ending specified in a paradigm table wherein endings that match are associated in the table with their corresponding grammatical forms, to determine if the verb form is one which can take enclitic endings, the lemma form of the verb being obtained by replacing the matched ending with ending for the infinitive; outputting said lemma representing the verb form of the word with the enclitic ending removed.
Claim 3
Independent Claim
64 words
A method for manipulating verb forms containing enclitic pronouns in order to identify the enclitic pronouns and to generate corresponding verb forms without enclitics in a word processing system or natural language analysis system, the steps comprising: inputting a word from an input word stream; examining the word for the presence of enclitic pronouns; removing the enclitic pronouns; outputting a word form without enclitics.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
64 words
A method for manipulating verb forms containing enclitic pronouns in order to identify the enclitic pronouns and to generate corresponding verb forms without enclitics in a word processing system or natural language analysis system, the steps comprising: inputting a word from an input word stream; examining the word for the presence of enclitic pronouns; removing the enclitic pronouns; outputting a word form without enclitics.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 2 modified to access a dictionary to identify verb forms.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 2 modified to reference a list of ambiguous words to be able to output multiple verb forms when appropriate.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of claim 2 modified to output a list of enclitic pronouns in addition to the verb form without the enclitics.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of claim 2 modified to output the lemma of the verb in addition to the verb form without the enclitics.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of claim 2 modified to apply morphological transformations including addition or removal of letters or accents to reconstruct the verb form without the enclitics.
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