Syllables

[kanen]

I'm doing something which requires me to understand how many syllables are in a word I've retrieved.



Anyone have any experience figuring this out in newLisp?

[rickyboy]

Kanen,



To answer your question, no.  But, assuming you mean English words and you want a purely algorithmic approach, it looks like the best you can do it is by heuristic.  The first (highest voted answer) on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9096228/counting-syllables-in-a-word">this stackoverflow post has a link to the TeX hyphenation algorithm.  That looks pretty promising.



Also, maybe there is an on-line dictionary of English words that are already hyphenated to which you could appeal (i.e. have a lookup table).



Good luck, man!

[rrq]

If you are looking at syllables in terms of sound (rather than the hyphenation problem), you might do something fun with

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/cmusphinx/code/trunk/cmudict/cmudict.0.7a">//http://svn.code.sf.net/p/cmusphinx/code/trunk/cmudict/cmudict.0.7a

which is an english phonetic dictionary (copyright CMU). You'll probably need to compound certain phoneme series into syllables before counting.

[rickyboy]

Looks like that could be made into a nice lookup table.  It's easy to see the pronounced vowel sounds (in the code) and count them.  That count should equal the syllable count.  Nice find, Ralph!

[kanen]

You guys are very helpful. With a little training and some newLisp magic, I figured it out and created a giant table from my results.

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(set 'phonetics '(
  ("AABERG" 2)
  ("AACHEN" 2)
  ("AACHENER" 3)
  ("AAKER" 2)
  ("AALSETH" 2)
  ("AAMODT" 2)
  ("AANCOR" 2)
  ("AARDEMA" 3)
  ("AARDVARK" 2) ... )


[Lutz]

... now with the phonetics association list, you can quickly create a context for lookup:

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> (new Tree 'Syllables)
Syllables
> (Syllables phonetics)
Syllables
> (Syllables "AARDEMA")
3
>


see also here: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#hash">http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlis ... .html#hash">http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#hash