Subj : Re: Determining Syllables
To   : comp.programming,comp.lang.c
From : Giannis Papadopoulos
Date : Thu Aug 04 2005 09:06 pm

pemo wrote:
> Does anyone know of an algorithm that can accurately determine the number of 
> syllables in a given English word - esp. if that word isn't already 'known' 
> by such an algorithm?
> 
> FYI, there are two approaches I'm currently considering.
> 
> One is to reduce/convert (somehow) the word into its IPA equivalent, e.g., 
> 'parliament' becomes 'plm()nt' (apologies if that doesn't come out too 
> right!) - parsing that is, I believe, straight forward.  However, I can't 
> find a program to convert English words into their IPA equivalents, and, so 
> I'm currently stuck with using a dictionary - not so bad, until a word isn't 
> in the dictionary I'm using!
> 
> Another approach might be to modify a good hyphenating algorithm; as I'm 
> lead to believe that these usually insert a hyphen at a syllable boundary. 
> However, how they do that (determine the point), and whether it's even true, 
> I just don't know.
> 
> I've also had a look at the Flesch readability stuff - but it's probably not 
> going to be accurate enough for what I need it for.

This is OT. It has nothing to do with C...


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Giannis Papadopoulos
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University of Thessaly
Computer & Communications Engineering dept.

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