NAME

       sylseg-sk - segments a Slovak words in to the sylables

SYNOPSIS

       sylseg-sk [--best] [--color] [--dl debug level] [--help] [--ofile <file_name>] [<input_file>]

DESCRIPTION

       The sylabic segmentation is esential for some linguistic or speech recognition applications. Depending on
       the language either rule based or statistical  approach  is  beying  used.  For  Slovak  the  statistical
       approach seems to be more suitable.

       sylseg-sk  implements  one of the statistical approaches for the syllabic segmentaion. Each input word is
       segmented into the syllables.  The several  possible  segmentations  are  generated  and  sorted  by  the
       likelihood. If no input file is specified, the standard input is expected. If input file is used then the
       output is written in to the file as well. The filename is input filename with the extension ".syllables".

       The input output code page is ISO 8859-2. To use it with different CP use some CP  convertor  and  pipes.
       For  example  to  have  input  and output in UTF-8 use (for interactive use): filterm UTF8-iso2 iso2-UTF8
       sylseg-sk or (for batch processing) iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-2 | sylseg-sk |  iconv  -f  ISO_8859-2  -t
       UTF-8

       Performance  of  the  syllabic segmentation depend on the used statistics.  To improve the quality of the
       segmentaion is possible to train the better system with  the  sylseg-sk-training  tool  and  replace  the
       original file located in /usr/share/sylseg_sk/sylseg-sk.stats

       The  design  of  the  sylseg-sk is language independent. With retrained statistics it theoreticaly should
       work for any language.

OPTIONS

       --best Print the best result only.

       --color
              Enable color output.

       --dl 1..5
              Set the debug level. Control the amount of  displayed  information  The  debug  level  0  displays
              nothing. The maximum level 5 displays full debugging report. The default debug level is 1.

       --help display a short help text

       --ofile <file_name>
              Write output also in to given file.

EXAMPLES

       Use standard input and debug level 3:
              sylseg-sk --dl 3

       Process all the from file aaa.txt and print just the best segmentation:
              sylseg-sk --best aaa.txt

EXIT STATUS

       sylseg-sk returns a zero if it succeeds to process all the input words

AUTHOR

       Jozef Ivanecky (dodo (at) kanoistika.sk)

SEE ALSO

       sylseg-sk-training(1), filterm(1), iconv(1), konwert(1)