Write a program or function to estimate as closely as possible the number of syllables in English words.
The input list is here: 1000 basic English words. There are only 997 words because a few duplicates were removed.
For each word, output a line containing the word, a comma (,), and the number of syllables and no other characters except for new-line, e.g. photograph,3 (pho-to-graph). Use the code snippet below to score your answer. Paste your code and output into the respective boxes and press the "Submit" button.
Scoring
All scoring is calculated automatically by the snippet, but here is how it works in order to lower your score:
- 60 points for each byte, however if you don't use any Unicode codepoints above U+00FF the snippet will calculate characters instead of bytes
- Each word where the number of syllables is correct will score 0
Scoring table for wrong syllables. The axes are symmetrical, one is the number of wrong syllables per word, and the other is the number of words with that number of syllables wrong:
| 1| 2| 3| 4| …
-+--+--+--+--+--
1| 1| 3| 6|10|
-+--+--+--+--+--
2| 3| 9|18|30|
-+--+--+--+--+--
3| 6|18|36|60|
-+--+--+--+--+--
4|10|30|60|100
-+--+--+--+--+--
…| | | | |
- If you have 200 words with 1 wrong syllable and 100 words with 2 wrong syllables your score for wrong syllables will be
200*201/2 * 1*2/2 + 100*101/2 * 2*3/2=20100 * 1 + 5050 * 3=20100 + 15150=35250 - The scoring is designed to make it easy to lower your score when you have a lot of wrong syllables but hard when you only have a few
- Duplicate words in your output will not be removed. Outputting
photograph,1,photograph,2,photograph,3will simply increase your score - Post all three scores, Code, Word and Total. The Total Score will be used to determine a winner
You can use the code snippet to see how many syllables are expected for each word. Simply run it with no input and it will output the list in the expected format, as well as all the words where the number of syllables is wrong, e.g. photograph *1, (3).
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"above": 2,
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};
function checkcode(e) {
var t = document.getElementById('words').value;
var re = new RegExp(/^(\w+),(\d+)/gm);
var lines = t.match(re);
re = new RegExp(/^(\w+),(\d+)/);
if (!lines) {
lines = [];
}
var keys = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(syl));
var tally = [];
var wrong = [];
for (i = 0; i < lines.length; ++i) {
var num = lines[i].match(re);
if (num[1] in syl) {
var res = num[1] !== "tear"? Math.abs(syl[num[1]] - num[2]): Math.min(Math.abs(syl[num[1]][0] - num[2]), Math.abs(syl[num[1]][1] - num[2]));
if (!(res in tally)) {
tally[res] = 0;
}
++tally[res];
if (res) {
wrong.push(num[1] + " *" + num[2] + ", (" + syl[num[1]] + ")");
}
delete(keys[num[1]]);
}
}
for (i in keys) {
if (!(keys[i] in tally)) {
tally[keys[i]] = 0;
}
++tally[keys[i]];
}
var score = 0;
for (i = 0; i < tally.length; ++i) {
if (i in tally) {
score += i * (i + 1) * tally[i] * (tally[i] + 1) / 4;
}
}
var missing = 0;
var missinglist = []
for (i in keys) {
missinglist.push(i + "," + keys[i]);
++missing;
}
codescore = document.getElementById("code").value.length;
codescore = document.getElementById("code").value;
if (codescore.match(/[^\u0000-\u00FF]/)) {
cs1 = codescore.match(/[\u0000-\u007F]/g);
cs2 = codescore.match(/[\u0080-\u07FF]/g);
cs3 = codescore.match(/[\u0800-\uFFFF]/g);
codescore = (cs1? cs1.length: 0) + (cs2? cs2.length * 2: 0) + (cs3? cs3.length * 3: 0);
}
else {
codescore = codescore.length;
}
codescore *= 60;
document.getElementById("result").value = "Code score: " + codescore + "\nWord score: " + score + "\nTotal score: " + (codescore + score) + "\nValid lines: " + lines.length + "\nMissing words: " + missing + "\n\nMissing words:\n" + missinglist.join("\n") + "\n\nWrong number:\n" + wrong.join("\n");
}textarea {
width: 320px;
height: 480px;
}
textarea#code {
width: 650px;
height: 80px;
}
span {
display: inline-block;
}<span>Code:<br/>
<textarea id="code">
</textarea></span><br/>
<span>Output:<br/>
<textarea id="words">
</textarea></span>
<span>Score:<br/><textarea id="result" disabled="disabled">
</textarea></span><br/>
<input type="submit" onclick="checkcode(this)"/>The variant of English used for the syllables is Australian English, spoken slower than usual. There is one word in the list that has two pronunciations with different numbers of syllables: tear to rip, 1 syllable; and water from the eye, 2 syllables (te-ar). Either tear,1 or tear,2 is correct for this word. I have gone through the whole list twice, but there might be some errors. Please don't complain that a particular word has a different number of syllables in British, American, etc. English. I will only make changes to the expected number of syllables if I agree that the number of syllables is wrong in Australian English.
Standard Code Golf rules with custom scoring.
photograph,3, plus running the snippet with no input also shows the expected output in the correct format. \$\endgroup\$word,numberformat would nearly double my code length, as opposed to just outputting the number. \$\endgroup\$print("$w,$n")instead ofprint($n)doesn't add that many characters. It's best to input the entire list to your program (e.g. as a file) and output the whole list too. \$\endgroup\$programprogramprogram&,#<>","<>ToString[programprogramprogram]&, andPrint[""<>(#<>","<>ToString[programprogramprogram]<>"\n"&/@StringSplit[InputString[]~Import~"Text"])]. \$\endgroup\$