Word division in Spanish

By José A. Mañas

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 30 No. 7, Pages 612-616
10.1145/28569.28571

Spanish is a language with very precise and regular orthographic rules. A syllabication algorithm strictly based on syntactic analysis, not requiring any semantic knowledge, is presented and further extended to include hyphenation. Algorithms are presented as pattern matching schemata, and efficient implementations are considered.

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