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in reply to Re^2: How to count the vocabulary of an author?
in thread How to count the vocabulary of an author?

There are look-up tables for that.

And even if they didn't exist you can derive most stems by statistical analysis, at least with the Indo-European languages I know.°

Good enough for a word count.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) because they have in most cases a fixed stem. I suppose Finnish to be much harder...