eu.crydee.syllablecounter

Class SyllableCounter

java.lang.Object

eu.crydee.syllablecounter.SyllableCounter

public class SyllableCounter
extends Object

Fallback syllable counter. Based on the work of Thomas Jakobsen (thomj05@student.uia.no) and Thomas Skardal (thomas04@student.uia.no) for the NLTK readability plugin . Their work is itself based on the algorithm in Greg Fast's perl module Lingua::EN::Syllable.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SyllableCounter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	count(String word) Main point of this library.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SyllableCounter

public SyllableCounter()

Method Detail

count

public int count(String word)

Main point of this library. Method to count the number of syllables of a word using a fallback method as documented at the class level of this documentation.

Parameters:

word - the word you want to count the syllables of.

Returns:

the number of syllables of the word.