A Rule Based Syllabification Algorithm for Sinhala

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2005

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science/ IJCNLP: International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

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This paper presents a study of Sinhala syllable structure and an algorithm for identifying syllables in Sinhala words. After a thorough study of the Syllable structure and linguistic rules for syllabification of Sinhala words and a survey of the relevant literature, a set of rules was identified and implemented as a simple, easy-to-implement algorithm. The algorithm was tested using 30,000 distinct words obtained from a corpus and compared with the same words manually syllabified. The algorithm performs with 99.95 % accuracy.

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Sinhalese language, Sri Lanka, Algorithms, Syllabication

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