Find the words in a long stream of characters. Auto-tokenize

Question

How would you find the correct words in a long stream of characters?

Input :

\"The revised report onthesyntactictheoriesofsequentialcontrolandstate\"
         


        

Answer 1

Here is a code in Mathematica I started to develop for a recent code golf.
It is a minimal matching, non greedy, recursive algorithm. That means that the sentence "the pen is mighter than the sword" (without spaces) returns {"the pen is might er than the sword} :)

findAll[s_] :=
  Module[{a = s, b = "", c, sy = "="},
  While[
   StringLength[a] != 0,
   j = "";
   While[(c = findFirst[a]) == {} && StringLength[a] != 0,
    j = j <> StringTake[a, 1];
    sy = "~";
    a = StringDrop[a, 1];
   ];
   b = b <> " " <> j ;
   If[c != {},
    b = b <> " " <> c[[1]];
    a = StringDrop[a, StringLength[c[[1]]]];
   ];
  ];
   Return[{StringTrim[StringReplace[b, "  " -> " "]], sy}];
]

findFirst[s_] :=
  If[s != "" && (c = DictionaryLookup[s]) == {}, 
   findFirst[StringDrop[s, -1]], Return[c]];

Sample Input

ss = {"twodreamstop", 
      "onebackstop", 
      "butterfingers", 
      "dependentrelationship", 
      "payperiodmatchcode", 
      "labordistributioncodedesc", 
      "benefitcalcrulecodedesc", 
      "psaddresstype", 
      "ageconrolnoticeperiod",
      "month05", 
      "as_benefits", 
      "fname"}

Output

 twodreamstop              = two dreams top
 onebackstop               = one backstop
 butterfingers             = butterfingers
 dependentrelationship     = dependent relationship
 payperiodmatchcode        = pay period match code
 labordistributioncodedesc ~ labor distribution coded es c
 benefitcalcrulecodedesc   ~ benefit c a lc rule coded es c
 psaddresstype             ~ p sad dress type
 ageconrolnoticeperiod     ~ age con rol notice period
 month05                   ~ month 05
 as_benefits               ~ as _ benefits
 fname                     ~ f name

HTH