Hyphenation Frysk
Hyphenation Frysk is a web app that adds hyphenation marks to multi-syllable words in Frisian text.
We trained a model using Phonetisaurus on the Foarkarswurdlist dataset, comprising 694,504 multisyllabic words. The following people were involved in the development of Hyphenation Frysk: Wilbert Heeringa (implementation), Eduard Drenth (data).
Who is involved
Wilbert Heeringa
Researcher
Wilbert Heeringa is a researcher at the Fryske Akademy, working on dialectometry, phonetics and statistics. He uses computational methods to measure dialect variation and change in vocabulary, morphology and pronunciation, and develops tools for phonetic research such as Visible Sounds.
Eduard Drenth
Software architect
Eduard Drenth is a software architect at the Fryske Akademy, where he is co-responsible for ICT policy . He is also involved in the Fryske Akademy’s language databases (Frysker) and the online Dutch-Frisian dictionary as a developer.
