Compound Rules overview

The Compound Rules feature allows you to define overt rules for word-internal compounds consisting of two stems.

There are two basic kinds of compounds:

• Left- or Right-Headed

  Either the left or the right member is the "head" of the compound. The resulting stem has the same category as the head.

• Non-Headed

  The resulting stem has a different category than either the left or the right member of the compound.

There are default compound rules that a parser can use if you have not defined overt ones. HC Parser parameters allow you control the use of the default compound rules by that parser.

The Compound Rules Help topics are the following:

Insert a compound rule

Delete a compound rule

Edit a compound rule

 Important

• Parsers use the compound rules you create while analyzing isolated word forms.

Related Topics

Compound Rules fields overview

Grammar overview