Re: Sentence Structure in Other Languages

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:49:56 +1000

jaym1212 wrote:
> In languages like Spanish, the adjective comes after the word it
> modifies rather than before it as in English. In a similar vien, in
> following sentences, "during breakfast/lunch" modifies "ate" and is
> located near the end of sentence. Can someone describe different
> sentence structures from other languages (translated to English)? I am
> looking for ideas to best structure data in a comptuer program. TIA.

I don't see how a data structure there can be better than another
except for a specific language. In which case you will need as
many data structures as languages. And what of languages with
free word order?

And what is the purpose of the program? To generate sentences?
To analyze (parse) sentences? To extract the meaning of sentences
given a dictionary? Each purpose will be solved by a different
algorithm, I expect (I don't see the day of a general algorithm
being found in my lifetime).

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