HFST-GUESS(1)

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💖 HFST-GUESS — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found yourself in the User Commands section of the manual, staring at hfst-guess(1), and honestly? iconic. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

hfst-guess — =Use a guesser (and generator) to guess analyses or inflectional

(yes bestie the original description literally trails off like that, we don't gatekeep, we report faithfully 💅)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hfst-guess [OPTIONS...] [INFILE]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Use a guesser (and generator) to guess analyses or inflectional paradigms of unknown words. that's the whole vibe. unknown word walks in, guesser does its little magic, analyses come out. periodt.

💜 Common options:

  • -h, --help — Print help message
  • -V, --version — Print version info
  • -v, --verbose — Print verbosely while processing
  • -q, --quiet — Only print fatal erros and requested output
  • -s, --silent — Alias of --quiet

🎀 Input/Output options:

  • -i, --input=INFILE — Read input transducer from INFILE
  • -o, --output=OUTFILE — Write output transducer to OUTFILE

🧚 Guesser options:

  • -f, --model-form-filename — Inflectional information for generated model forms is read from this file.
  • -n, --max-number-of-guesses — Maximal number of analysis per word form (5 by default).
  • -m, --max-number-of-forms — Maximal number of generated model forms per guess (2 by default).
  • -g, --generate-threshold — Generate only forms whose weight is better than the weight of the of the best form plus this threshold. (50 by default).

The guesser and generator should be constructed using the tool hfst-guessify, which can compile a guesser and generator from a morphological analyzer. hfst-guessify packages the guesser and generator in the same fst-file. no cap, that's the whole pipeline 🫶

If option -f is used, but a generator has not been compiled with the guesser, a generator will be compiled, which will increase load time. (so like, it works, but it's giving slow 💀)

If OUTFILE or INFILE is missing or -, standard streams will be used.

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <hfst-bugs@helsinki.fi> or directly to our bug tracker at: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/issues>

hfst-guess home page: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki/HfstGuess> General help using HFST software: <https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki>

Copyright © 2017 University of Helsinki, License GPLv3: GNU GPL version 3 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

okay bestie that's the whole page 🌈 fr fr. this one's from the HFST crew, dated August 2018, and it lives at HFST-GUESS(1) in the manual. go forth and guess those paradigms, you absolute main character 💅✨

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