NAME

Lingua::PT::Hyphenate - Separates Portuguese words in syllables

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::PT::Hyphenate;

@syllables = hyphenate("teste")   # @syllables now hold ('tes', 'te')

# or

$word = new Lingua::PT::Hyphenate;
@syllables = $word->hyphenate;

DESCRIPTION

Separates Portuguese words into syllables.

SEE ALSO

If you're looking for Natural Language Processing tools, you may like this Portuguese site: http://natura.di.uminho.pt

Gramatica Universal da Lingua Portuguesa (Texto Editora)

BUGS

None known, but more tests need to be made.

AUTHOR

Jose Alves de Castro, <cog [at] cpan [dot] org<gt>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2004 by Jose Alves de Castro

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.