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| author |   Nikos Giotis <nikos.giotis@gmail.com> | 2018-02-11 11:46:06 +0000 |
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| committer |   Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2018-02-17 07:42:52 +0700 |
| commit | 0a451da7466c09920026949916f84df4290a3698 (patch) | |
| tree | f9a5fe8e32ac2dfd29929baf0c064947ad2dca05 /perl/perl-Lingua-EN-Syllable/README | |
| parent | 96d157767d206ea07aae5a43a372df0dbdb1f63f (diff) | |
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perl/perl-Lingua-EN-Syllable: Added (short description of app).
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/perl/perl-Lingua-EN-Syllable/README b/perl/perl-Lingua-EN-Syllable/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1376a06690 --- /dev/null +++ b/perl/perl-Lingua-EN-Syllable/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +perl-Linuga-EN-Syllable + +Lingua::EN::Syllable::syllable() estimates the number of syllables in +the word passed to it. + +Note that it isn't entirely accurate... it fails (by one syllable) for +about 10-15% of my /usr/dict/words. The only way to get a 100% accurate +count is to do a dictionary lookup, so this is a small and fast +alternative where more-or-less accurate results will suffice, such as +estimating the reading level of a document. + +I welcome pointers to more accurate algorithms, since this one is +pretty quick-and-dirty. This was designed for English (well, American +at least) words, but sometimes guesses well for other languages. |