What is it about?
Syllabication is essential as a preprocessing step in speech systems. In this study, syllabication rules for vowels and consonants were developed to parse Cebuano-Visayan words of various lengths, including those with hyphens. The rules include unique sequences of alphabetic characters like 'ng' which can be regarded as a single-sounding consonant. Besides, rules on hyphenated words were emphasized to generate readable and meaningful syllables.
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Why is it important?
Syllabication rules for Cebuano-Visayan words are a useful input for researchers and developers of speech recognition systems that have focused on this language. The guidelines enhance the naturalness and understandability of the words, whether spoken or written, leading to a conversation that is easier to follow and comprehend.
Perspectives
When syllabicating, the hyphen is a crucial punctuation that shouldn't be missed. The rules are tested using different word lengths with or without hyphens, and the results making the words more understandable. Although the syllabication criteria only apply to the native words of the language under study, improvement can be very significant to include the language's borrowed words.
Roseclaremath Caroro
Misamis University
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This page is a summary of: Rules for Orthographic Word Parsing of the Philippines' Cebuano-Visayan Language Using Context-Free Grammars, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, April 2020, IGI Global,
DOI: 10.4018/ijssci.2020040103.
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