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A method for automatic determination whether a word type is a solid compound word is disclosed. In the method a word type is looked up in an electronically stored list of known word types. The list comprises an indication for each known word type of whether or not it is a known solid compound word. If the word type is found in the electronically stored list of known word types, it is determined whether the word type is a known solid compound word or not in accordance with the indication in the electronically stored list of known word types. If the word type is not found in the electronically stored list of known word types, the word type is divided into a prefix and a suffix. The prefix is looked up in an electronically stored list of known prefixes of solid compound words of a word class and the suffix is looked up in an electronically stored list of known suffixes of solid compound words of said word class. These look-ups are done for all possible divisions of the word type. If a prefix, associated with a division, is found in the electronically stored list of known prefixes of solid compound words of the word class and a suffix, associated with the division, is found in the electronically stored list of known suffixes of solid compound words of the word class, it is determined that the word type is a solid compound word of the word class. If the word type has not been determined to be a solid compound word, the look-up and determination is repeated for each of a number of different word classes.
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