LX-Syllabifier's documentation

Functionality

LX-Syllabifier is a freely available on-line service for the syllabification of Portuguese text. This service was developed and is maintained at the University of Lisbon by the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group of the Department of Informatics.

LX-Syllabifier performs syllabification following a rule based approach. The syllabification of Portuguese is defined in Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (1990).

Authorship

LX-Syllabifier was developed by Francisco Costa, João Rodrigues and João Silva, under the coordination of António Branco, at the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group.

License

LX-Syllabifier is distributed under an MIT license.

Release

You can download the program here.

Publications

Irrespective of the most recent version of this tool you may use, when mentioning it, please cite this reference:

• Rodrigues, João, Francisco Costa, João Silva and António Branco, 2016, "Automatic Syllabification of Portuguese", 1 (10), Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Associação Portuguesa de Linguística e Faculdade de Letras do Porto, pp. 715-720.

Contact us

Contact us using the following email address: 'nlx' concatenated with 'at' concatenated with 'di.fc.ul.pt'.