Abbreviation affixes

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Abbreviation affixes

Now splitting according to POS, and according to dot or not

First collecting POS info, *-noun, *-adv, etc. Also splitting when in doubt: -noun-adj => -noun and -adj Then pointing to two contlexes, a dot-one and a non-dot-one.

Lexicons without final period

Lexicons with final period

• **LEXICON ab-dot-noun ** This is the lexicon for abbrs that must have a period.

• **LEXICON ab-dot-adj ** This is the lexicon for abbrs that must have a period.

• **LEXICON nodot-infl **

• **LEXICON dot-infl **

• **LEXICON DOT ** - Adds the dot to dotted abbreviations. we also allow different variations of dotted abbreviations at the end of the sentence (especially for tokenisers)
• “kvæð.” gets analysed as "kvæð" ABBR Gram/IAbbr N Abbr in tokeniser mode also:
• “kvæð.” -> "ABBR Gram/IAbbr N Abbr + "." CLB to account for sentence final kvæð with no extra full stop.
• also "kvæða" V Imp Sg + "." CLB due to homonymy. Same treatment is done with two and three full stops after abbreviation in the end of the sentence:
• “kvæð..” -> "su" Adv Abbr + "." CLB Err/Orth
• “kvæð…” -> "su" Adv Abbr + "..." CLB

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This (part of) documentation was generated from src/fst/morphology/affixes/abbreviations.lexc