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thank you for the responses.

more suggestions are welcome.

let us explain the problem further. actually, what we are wanting to make is a word separator, based on a lexicon and a set of phonetic rules (of any kind, for example, I am -> I'm, vowel + vowel = long vowel (a + a = â; a + a = aya))

an example of language that has these characteristics is Sanskrit. for example, "Krishnah" + "dhaavati" = "Krishnodhaavati", "namaH" + "te" = "namaste" (aH|dh -> odh; aH|t -> ast; as| -> aH (as at the end of the string turns to aH)), etc.

for making things easier, the lexicons used to form the strings are generally quite small, and how we generate it is actually irrelevant for this problem. for example, krishnodhaavati would be analysed by means of the lexicon ('krishnaH', 'dhaavati', 'naH', 'dhaa') (the set of chunks of the string that exist in the dictionary), but how we generate this lexicon doesn't matter, we just want to join its words based on a set of phonetic rules (aH|dh -> odh, a|e -> aye, a|e -> ai, aH|t -> ast, aH|n -> on, for example) in order to obtain back the original string segmented in all its possibilities (namaH-te; krishnaH-dhaavati; namaH-namaH; etc.). of course, there will not always be only one possibility of segmentation, given a big quantity of juncture rules and a (relatively) big lexicon of possible morphemes.

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by halley (Prior) on Mar 24, 2008 at 18:42 UTC
    I am hoping that this is for a good cause, but the cynic in me is wondering if this is somehow related to making those google-spamming search websites. You know, they end up making ads for "Lowest prices for Cowboy Cat Dog at www.cowboy-cat-dog.com!" I'm glad that the free domain-tasting practice is falling out of favor with the registrars.

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      funny answer.

      but we can assure you that it is definitely not what we want to do; we HATE when we receive those annoying spams and see those things in Google, it is like we are surrounded by bad people who only want to trick us and get away with this. it is just for a personal project of a morphological analyser.

      we are not mad at you, we perfectly understand your cynicism... it is hard those days to have good faith in humanity.