Compound word splitting - Swedish
Swedish, just like Finnish, German, Norwegian, can creatively build new words by joining together simple or complex words into a new word. One can often infer the meaning of the compound by analyzing its parts. In this demo, we show how a compound word splitter works for Swedish. The demo is exhaustive - it shows all possible splittings of a complex word with their respective base forms.
Business value
By adding analysis of complex words to a search solution one gains increase in performance and user experience. Such a module can also improve other Text Analytics tasks such as document categorization, summarization, classification, etc.