For some words, it is easy to tell that the penultimate syllable is long, and should therefore be accented (e.g., adventus because -ven- ends in a consonant, and if the penultimate vowel were a dipthong (au, æ, œ) that would make the syllable long as well.) The real trick would be to have a list of words whose penultimate syllable is never long, and one of words that always have a long vowel in the penultimate syllable (e.g., advenit is ambiguous because has a long e if it is in the perfect tense, and a short e in the present tense). If anyone could get such lists of Latin words together, I could write a script to add accents to all the words whose accent is unambiguous, and then list all the 3+ syllable words whose accent would need to be determined by the context.
Does anyone have an accented Latin word list of any kind, though? Even if it were just a list of every Latin word with accent marked, or with vowel lengths marked, I could write a script to extract the 3+ syllable words into their proper lists when they are not ambiguously accented words like advenit. I could probably figure out a way to download a list of all the Latin words contained in Wiktionary, but I'm not sure how accurate or complete that would be. *Benjamin Bloomfield* On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Innocent Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Gregorio Users, > > I'm experimenting with using an OCR program to extract liturgical texts > from a PDF of a Latin Missal, for various purposes including setting texts > with Gregorio. With the software I have available, I am having difficulty > doing the OCR in a way that preserves the accents accurately. > > Is anyone aware of automated ways to take a Latin text that does not have > accents and to add them in? > > Yours, > > bro. Innocent, op > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > >
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