Organization of DECO
The following graph represents the organization of DECO dictionary.
The current version(V02-2010) of DECO dictionary is mainly composed of the following two sub-dictionaries:
- Entries of DECO-BS : All entries of basic (Simple) Words
<NS> : Nouns (<ZNZ>/<ZNM>/<ZND>/<ZNP>/<ZNU>/<ZNT> & some of <ZNX>(only 2-syllable nouns)/<ZNF>)
<VS> : Verbs
<AS> : Adjectives
<DS> : Adverbs
- Entries of DECO-ES : All entries of Non-Basic Nouns of <NS>
<ZNX> : Derived & Compound Nouns
<ZNF> : Foreign Nouns
<ZNE> : Encyclopedic Proper Nouns
<ZNC> : Corpus-based Proper Nouns
The dictionary {DECO.dic} may be automatically transformed into the following format called {DECO-BSflx.txt} where all syllables of roots are decomposed into consonants and vowels and multiplicated into several variants if necessary (e.g. irregular verbs). The latter is ready to be associated with a sub-set of inflectional suffixes by means of the number of inflectional classes. The following graph represents the 4 sets of inflectional suffixes, i.e.
