Hence , enumerating morphological variants in a semi-automatically generated lexicon , such as proposed for French ( Zweigenbaum et al. , 2001 ) , turns out to be infeasible , at least for German and related languages .
the contribution of morphological knowledge to french mesh mapping for information retrieval
P Zweigenbaum S Darmoni N Grabar
The problem one faces from an IR point of view is that besides fairly standardized nominal compounds , which already form a regular part of the sublanguage proper , a myriad of ad hoc compounds are formed on the fly which can not be anticipated when formulating a retrieval query though they appear in relevant documents . Hence , enumerating morphological variants in a semi-automatically generated lexicon , such as proposed for French ( Zweigenbaum et al. , 2001 ) , turns out to be infeasible , at least for German and related languages . Furthermore , medical terminology is characterized by a typical mix of Latin and Greek roots with the corresponding host language ( e.g. , German ) , often referred to as neo-classical compounding ( McCray et al. , 1988 ) .
Hence , enumerating morphological variants in a semi-automatically generated lexicon , such as proposed for French ( @@CITATION ) , turns out to be infeasible , at least for German and related languages .