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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at unagi dot cis dot upenn dot edu
Date: 2004-11-09 13:39:13
Subject: Italics (was: Probabilistic correction)


I think it's the case that a word in italics is never an Old English word (leaving aside errors in the italic markings).

Sometimes the best solution is a Rube Goldberg contraption. You could use a probabilistic approach to try to identify the language of a word, but then deterministically reject that result for an individual word when an italic word has been judged to be an OE word. For such a word, you'd pick the second-place winner (Latin or ModE) instead.

--Sean

Messages in this threadNameCollege/UniversityDate
Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-04 05:41:11
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-04 07:49:10
Re: Probabilistic correction Sean Crist Swarthmore College 2004-11-04 22:42:53
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-05 05:31:16
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-05 06:59:54
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-05 07:29:53
Re: Probabilistic correction Sean Crist Swarthmore College 2004-11-05 09:32:30
Re: Probabilistic correction Sean Crist Swarthmore College 2004-11-05 09:48:16
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-08 05:07:19
Re: Probabilistic correction Sean Crist Swarthmore College 2004-11-08 09:12:45
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-08 09:46:59
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-08 10:02:13
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-08 12:10:56
Re: Probabilistic correction Sean Crist Swarthmore College 2004-11-08 15:26:04
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-09 06:47:45
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-09 08:50:46
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-09 09:43:19
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-09 10:59:49
Italics (was: Probabilistic correction) Sean Crist Swarthmore College 2004-11-09 13:39:13
Re: Probabilistic correction Keith Briggs 2004-11-11 06:57:20