sylcount (version 0.2-1)

sylcount: sylcount

Description

A vectorized syllable counter for English language text.

Because of the R memory allocations required, the operation is not thread safe. It is evaluated in serial.

Usage

sylcount(s, counts.only = TRUE)

Arguments

s

A character vector (vector of strings).

counts.only

Should only counts be returned, or words + counts?

Value

A list of dataframes.

Details

The maximum supported word length is 64 characters. For any token having more than 64 characters, the returned syllable count will be NA.

The syllable counter uses a hash table of known, mostly "irregular" (with respect to syllable counting) words. If the word is not known to us (i.e., not in the hash table), then we try to "approximate" the number of syllables by counting the number of non-consecutive vowels in a word.

So for example, using this scheme, each of "to", "too", and "tool" would be classified as having one syllable. However, "tune" would be classified as having 2. Fortunately, "tune" is in our table, listed as having 1 syllable.

The hash table uses a perfect hash generated by gperf.

See Also

readability

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(sylcount)
a <- "I am the very model of a modern major general."
b <- "I have information vegetable, animal, and mineral."

sylcount(c(a, b))
sylcount(c(a, b), counts.only=FALSE)

# }

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