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Appendix: PALMORF program architecture
PALMORF-preparations -> makelistsuffix, makelistprefix
allocates memory, establishes data-structures in RAM, assigns pointer-names.
PALMORF-main
direct input -> direct analysis
-> text file analysis
-> translation module
takes direct word or word sequence input from the key-board and sends
it to direct analysis.
"file" prompts file name input, followed by automatic text file analysis
(with only problematic words shown on the screen). Output is then
written to a _pars file.
"trad" changes output to translation mode (in direct analysis only)
"slut" ends session
direct analysis -> inflexion analysis, -> prefix, -> direct output
analyses keyboard word input directly; unlike text file analysis, this does
not make use of any major preprocessing, but is useful for fast checking
of individual word forms or short sentences.
direct output
writes output to screen, each target word is followed by all its
morphological readings, one per line, ordered by lexical root. If the
optional "trad"-mode is on, every new root in the reading cohort is
followed by a list of its syntactic word class possibilities, one per line,
each followed by Danish translation equivalents. Thus syntactic word
class provides a first, rough polysemy grouping.
findword
searches the lexicon for whole word items, abbreviations, polylexical items
etc., called mainly by the preprocessor for fast reference
inflexion analysis
whole word search
looks the input word up in the lexicon, and, if found, stores word class and - if
irregular - inflexion information for the output module. Whatever the outcome
of the whole word search, the program proceeds to inflexion morpheme
analysis.
inflexion morpheme analysis -> root search
looks for all possible inflexional ending morphemes in the input word
(starting from its right hand lexical border), cuts them off, standardises the
remaining trunk according to the inflexion morphemes base condition, and
sends it to root search.
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