Ubuntu Manpage: sylseg-sk - segments a Slovak words in to the sylables

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 segmentation. 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 segmentation it 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)