sylseg-sk(1)							   USER COMMANDS						      sylseg-sk(1)

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 segmentaion. 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 segmentaion 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)

SEE ALSO

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

version 0.5							 December 1, 2006						      sylseg-sk(1)