sylseg-sk(1)

💖 sylseg-sk — the sylable-slicing queen 💖

okay bestie, welcome to sylseg-sk(1) from the USER COMMANDS girlies. this is the manual for sylseg-sk, and she is here to slice Slovak words into their syllables like it's nothing. periodt.

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✨ NAME ✨

sylseg-sk — segments a Slovak words into the sylables 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, syllabic segmentation is essential for some linguistic or speech recognition applications, no cap. depending on the language, either a ruler-based approach or a statistical approach is being used. for Slovak, the statistical approach seems to be more suitable. she said what she said.

sylseg-sk implements one of the statistical approaches for the syllabic segmentaton. each input word is segmented into the syllables, bestie. the several possible segmentations are generated and sorted by the likelihood. it's giving ✨multiple options, ranked✨.

if no input file is specified, the standard input is expected. if an input file is used then the output is written into the file as well — and the filename is the input filename with the extension ".syllables". cute, right? 🎀

the input-output code page is ISO 8859-2. to use it with a different CP, use some CP converter 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

the performance of the syllabic segmentation depends 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. glow up your stats file, basically 💖

the design of the sylseg-sk is language independent. with retrained statistics it theoreticaly should work for any language. main character energy honestly 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --best — print the best result only. one answer, no debate, periodt.
• --color — enable color output. because we love a little flair 🌈
• --dl 1..5 — set the debug level. controls the amount of displayed information. debug level 0 displays nothing. the maximum level 5 displays a full debugging report. the default debug level is 1.
• --help — display a short help text. she's helpful like that 🫶
• --ofile <file_name> — write output also into given file.

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🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

use standard input and debug level 3:

sylseg-sk --dl 3

process file aaa.txt and print just the best segmentation:

sylseg-sk --best aaa.txt

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

sylseg-sk returns a zero if it succeeds to process all the input words. that's it, that's the whole mood.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jozef Ivanecky (dodo (at) kanoistika.sk)

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

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

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ngl bestie, this is version 0.7.3, dated September 5, 2020 — iconic behavior from back in the day. now go segment some syllables, you absolute legend 💜🌸