2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the merging system comprises the set of heuristics.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the merging system comprises the set of heuristics. 5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the set of heuristics further includes a second heuristic by which two consecutive words in the string are considered for merging based on part of speech tags assigned to the two words, the part of speech tags being selected from a restricted part of speech tagset, at least one of the restricted part of speech tags being configured for identifying a word from the target language as being one which also forms a part of a known closed compound word in the target language.