From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: chinese word mode
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:51:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc022sp0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAAF+z6GA0H5QvD2j0OUFOY1WfshE4XvaPn92VQ9D5V4tzU9L5Q@mail.gmail.com
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> Looks interesting, although sometimes it can be ambiguous.
>
> For example:
>
> * `化妆和服装' can split into either `化妆 和 服装' or `化妆 和服 装';
> * In `这个门把手坏了', `把手' is a word, but in `请把手拿开', `把手' is not a word;
> * In `将军任命了一名中将', `中将' is a word, but in `产量三年中将增长两倍', `中将' isn't a
> word any more.
>
> How do you solve this problem?
Short answer: you don't! When I first started looking at this issue, I
was considering all kinds of complicated solutions involving external
libraries by people smarter than me, who presumably had a system for
syntactical analysis.
Then someone pointed me at thai-word.el, which takes the "dumb"
approach -- scanning forward for the longest string in a word list --
and I realized if I was going to get anything actually completed, this
would have to do.
Mainly the point is making navigation through Chinese prose a little
less annoying, not producing a "correct" solution. As you note, there
will always be ambiguities that can't be resolved.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-09 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-05 9:11 chinese word mode Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-06 6:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-06 13:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-07 12:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-11-08 3:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-11-08 23:03 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-11-09 2:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2013-11-06 15:37 ` William Xu
2013-11-07 7:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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