Finite state methods for hyphenation

  • Authors:
  • Gosse Bouma

  • Affiliations:
  • Alfa-informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands e-mail: gosse@let.rug.nl

  • Venue:
  • Natural Language Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Hyphenation is the task of identifying potential hyphenation points inwords. In this paper, three finite-state hyphenation methods for Dutch are presented and compared in terms of accuracy and size of the resulting automata.