A method of inflecting words and a data processing unit for performing such method.

摘要

To enable inflected word forms to be derived, the invention provides a method and a data processing unit for inflecting a given word and for adapting the lexical data of the word correspondingly by reference to a classification scheme containing inflection rules for a given natural language. The effect achieved is that inflected word forms do not have to be contained in an electronic word register, and this results in a considerable reduction in memory space occupied by the word register. <IMAGE>