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1/11/2002 3:35:49 PM, "Jeff Rafter" <jeffrafter@d...> wrote: > Although I am not sure about the fringe cases : > e.g. "beema" I'll gladly assent to the requirement that all words in the limerick be entries in the OED. I had more or less the same algorithm in mind -- use regular expressions to find the words, look them up in a dictionary to extract the syllables, compare the syllable/line count to the defined pattern ... I don't know how to check the rhyming, but I'd also assent to some trivial definition if there is no well-known algorithm or heuristic for checking whether two syllables rhyme. I'm just not sure what XML (broadly defined) brings to the solution. BTW, a Googling for this resulted only in a paper on Michael Sperberg-McQueen's W3C page, but the DTD punts on the hard problems and just has <dimeter> and <trimeter> tags. I'm reminded of my original posting in this thread, which suggested that its inspiration for this contest came from somewhere about which Dante is the acknowledged authority ... I hope they're building a new Circle down there for the next person who sponsors such a thing!
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