syllabication: Syllabication

In trinker/qdap2: Bridging the gap between qualitative data and quantitative analysis

Description

syllable.sum - Count the number of syllables per row of text.

syllable.count - Count the number of syllables in a single text string.

polysyllable.sum - Count the number of polysyllables per row of text.

combo_syllable.sum - Count the number of both syllables and polysyllables per row of text.

Usage

  syllable.sum(text.var, parallel = FALSE)

  syllable.count(text, remove.bracketed = TRUE,
    algorithm.report = FALSE)

  polysyllable.sum(text.var, parallel = FALSE)

  combo_syllable.sum(text.var, parallel = FALSE)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable
parallel	logical. If TRUE attempts to run the function on multiple cores. Note that this may not mean a speed boost if you have one core or if the data set is smaller as the cluster takes time to create.
text	A single character vector of text.
remove.bracketed	logical. If TRUE brackets are removed from the analysis.
algorithm.report	logical. If TRUE generates a report of words not found in the dictionary (i.e. syllables were calculated with an algorithm).

Details

The worker function of all the syllable functions is syllable.count, though it is not intended for direct use on a transcript. This function relies on a combined dictionary lookup (based on the Nettalk Corpus (Sejnowski & Rosenberg, 1987)) and backup algorithm method.

Value

syllable.sum - returns a vector of syllable counts per row.

syllable.count - returns a dataframe of syllable counts and algorithm/dictionary uses and, optionally, a report of words not found in the dictionary.

polysyllable.sum - returns a vector of polysyllable counts per row.

combo_syllable.sum - returns a dataframe of syllable and polysyllable counts per row.

References

Sejnowski, T.J., and Rosenberg, C.R. (1987). "Parallel networks that learn to pronounce English text" in Complex Systems, 1, 145-168.

Examples

syllable.count("Robots like Dason lie.")
syllable.count("Robots like Dason lie.", algorithm.report = TRUE)
syllable.sum(DATA$state)
polysyllable.sum(DATA$state)
combo_syllable.sum(DATA$state)

trinker/qdap2 documentation built on May 31, 2019, 9:47 p.m.