Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!haapanen From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Hyphenation Message-ID: <1861@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 22:08:51 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1861 Posted: Sat Nov 9 22:08:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:50:09 EST References: <471@harvard.ARPA> <773@mmintl.UUCP> Reply-To: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS]) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 27 Summary: In article <773@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes: >Yes, and none of them are any good. Have you seen the things those >algorithms do? The only successful hyphenation algorithm is to look >the word up in a dictionary. >There are probably more and better on-line dictionaries available for >English than for any other language. This is an issue that must be >addressed. Yes, some languages are quite easy to hyphenate. FinnAPL idiom handbook includes a one-liner in APL that correctly hyphenates about 90% of Finnish words; a friend added a few more lines and got it up to, what I estimate to be between 99.5 and 99.9%. It still misses on __ _ "haayoaie" (no umlauts on vt240's) which translates to "wedding night intention". Oh well, that is apparently the most consecutive vowels of any Finnish word. The correct hyphenation is haa-yo-ai-e, incidentally. \tom haapanen watmath!watdcsu!haapanen Im all lost in the Supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer Guaranteed personality (c) The Clash, 1979