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+"""Complex word detection for readability metrics with NLP enhancement.
+
+This module implements complex word detection for the Gunning Fog Index,
+addressing the issues raised in GitHub PR #4:
+https://github.com/craigtrim/pystylometry/pull/4
+
+Background:
+-----------
+The Gunning Fog Index (Gunning, 1952) defines complex words as:
+    Words with 3+ syllables, EXCLUDING:
+    1. Proper nouns (names, places, organizations)
+    2. Compound words (hyphenated)
+    3. Common verb forms (-es, -ed, -ing endings)
+
+Reference:
+    Gunning, R. (1952). The Technique of Clear Writing.
+    McGraw-Hill, New York.
+
+Issues Addressed from PR #4:
+-----------------------------
+Issue #1: Complex Word Detection Heuristics Are Unreliable
+    - OLD: Capitalization heuristic for proper nouns (fails on acronyms, all-caps)
+    - NEW: spaCy POS tagging (PROPN tag) for accurate proper noun detection
+
+    - OLD: Regex-based suffix stripping (-es, -ed, -ing only)
+    - NEW: spaCy lemmatization for true morphological analysis
+
+Issue #3: Hyphenated Words Blanket Exclusion
+    - OLD: ALL hyphenated words excluded regardless of complexity
+    - NEW: Split hyphenated words and analyze each component
+           e.g., "well-known" (1+1) → not complex
+                 "self-education" (1+4) → complex
+
+Dual-Mode Design:
+-----------------
+**Enhanced Mode** (when spaCy available):
+    - Uses Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging for proper noun detection
+    - Uses lemmatization for morphological analysis
+    - More accurate, handles edge cases (acronyms, irregular verbs)
+
+**Basic Mode** (fallback when spaCy unavailable):
+    - Uses capitalization heuristic for proper nouns
+    - Uses simple suffix stripping for inflections
+    - Less accurate but requires no external dependencies
+
+This dual-mode approach maintains backward compatibility while providing
+enhanced accuracy when optional dependencies are available.
+"""
+
+import logging
+from typing import Optional
+
+from .syllables import count_syllables
+
+# Set up logging
+_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# Try to import spaCy (optional dependency)
+# spaCy is in the [readability] extras group in pyproject.toml
+try:
+    import spacy
+
+    _SPACY_AVAILABLE = True
+except ImportError:
+    _SPACY_AVAILABLE = False
+
+
+def is_complex_word(
+    word: str,
+    syllable_count: int,
+    use_spacy: bool = True,
+    pos: Optional[str] = None,
+    lemma: Optional[str] = None,
+    is_sentence_start: bool = False,
+) -> bool:
+    """
+    Determine if a word is complex according to Gunning Fog criteria.
+
+    Implementation of Gunning's (1952) complex word definition with
+    NLP enhancements to address PR #4 issues.
+
+    Gunning's Original Criteria:
+    -----------------------------
+    A word is complex if it has 3+ syllables AND is not:
+    1. A proper noun (names, places, organizations)
+    2. A compound word (hyphenated)
+    3. A common verb form ending in -es, -ed, or -ing
+
+    Reference:
+        Gunning, R. (1952). The Technique of Clear Writing. McGraw-Hill.
+        Pages 38-39: "Words of three or more syllables are hard words"
+
+    Enhancement Rationale (PR #4):
+    -------------------------------
+    **Issue #1 - Proper Noun Detection:**
+
+    OLD METHOD (Capitalization Heuristic):
+        - if word[0].isupper() and not is_sentence_start: return False
+        - FAILS on: "NASA" (all-caps), "iPhone" (mixed case), "O'Brien" (apostrophe)
+        - FALSE POSITIVES: Excludes acronyms that ARE complex
+
+    NEW METHOD (POS Tagging):
+        - Uses spaCy's PROPN (proper noun) POS tag
+        - ACCURATE: Correctly identifies proper nouns via linguistic analysis
+        - HANDLES: "NASA", "iPhone", "O'Brien", "McDonald's", etc.
+
+    **Issue #1 - Inflection Handling:**
+
+    OLD METHOD (Suffix Stripping):
+        - Strip -es/-ed/-ing, recount syllables
+        - FAILS on: "being" (strips to "be" incorrectly)
+        - INCOMPLETE: Misses -s, -ly, -er, -est, -tion, -ness, etc.
+
+    NEW METHOD (Lemmatization):
+        - Uses spaCy's lemmatizer for true morphological analysis
+        - ACCURATE: "companies" → "company", "running" → "run"
+        - COMPLETE: Handles all inflections, irregular forms
+
+    **Issue #3 - Hyphenated Words:**
+
+    OLD METHOD (Blanket Exclusion):
+        - if "-" in word: return False
+        - PROBLEM: "re-establishment" (5 syllables) excluded
+
+    NEW METHOD (Component Analysis):
+        - Split on hyphens, check each component
+        - ACCURATE: "well-known" (1+1) → not complex
+                   "self-education" (1+4) → complex
+
+    Args:
+        word: The word to check
+        syllable_count: Number of syllables in the word
+        use_spacy: Whether to use spaCy features if available
+        pos: Part-of-speech tag from spaCy (e.g., "PROPN", "VERB", "ADJ")
+        lemma: Lemmatized form from spaCy (e.g., "running" → "run")
+        is_sentence_start: Whether word appears at start of sentence
+                          (affects capitalization heuristic in basic mode)
+
+    Returns:
+        True if word is considered complex, False otherwise
+
+    Example:
+        >>> # Enhanced mode (with spaCy POS tagging and lemmatization)
+        >>> is_complex_word("beautiful", 3, use_spacy=True, pos="ADJ", lemma="beautiful")
+        True  # 3 syllables, not a proper noun or inflection
+
+        >>> is_complex_word("California", 4, use_spacy=True, pos="PROPN", lemma="California")
+        False  # Proper noun excluded (PROPN tag)
+
+        >>> is_complex_word("companies", 3, use_spacy=True, pos="NOUN", lemma="company")
+        True  # Lemma "company" has 3 syllables, still complex
+
+        >>> is_complex_word("running", 2, use_spacy=True, pos="VERB", lemma="run")
+        False  # Lemma "run" has 1 syllable, not complex
+
+        >>> # Basic mode (without spaCy, uses heuristics)
+        >>> is_complex_word("beautiful", 3, use_spacy=False)
+        True  # 3 syllables, no capitalization
+
+        >>> is_complex_word("California", 4, use_spacy=False, is_sentence_start=False)
+        False  # Capitalized mid-sentence, excluded as proper noun
+    """
+    # CRITERION 1: Must have 3+ syllables to be complex
+    # Reference: Gunning (1952), p. 38: "Words of three or more syllables"
+    if syllable_count < 3:
+        return False
+
+    # CRITERION 2: Exclude compound words (hyphenated)
+    # Reference: Gunning (1952), p. 39: "Do not count compound words"
+    # PR #4 Issue #3: Analyze components instead of blanket exclusion
+    if "-" in word:
+        return _is_hyphenated_complex(word)
+
+    # NLP-ENHANCED MODE (when spaCy available and used)
+    # Addresses PR #4 Issue #1: Use linguistic analysis instead of heuristics
+    if use_spacy and pos and lemma:
+        # CRITERION 3a: Exclude proper nouns (via POS tagging)
+        # Reference: Gunning (1952), p. 39: "Do not count proper names"
+        # PR #4 Fix: Use PROPN tag instead of capitalization heuristic
+        if pos == "PROPN":
+            return False
+
+        # CRITERION 3b: Exclude common inflections (via lemmatization)
+        # Reference: Gunning (1952), p. 39: "Do not count -ed, -es, -ing endings"
+        # PR #4 Fix: Use lemmatization for accurate morphological analysis
+        # Example: "running" (2 syl) → lemma "run" (1 syl) → not complex
+        #          "companies" (3 syl) → lemma "company" (3 syl) → still complex
+        #
+        # Note on -ly adverbs:
+        # --------------------
+        # spaCy's lemmatizer does NOT strip -ly suffixes from adverbs because -ly
+        # is a derivational morpheme (creates new words), not an inflectional one
+        # (grammatical variations). Gunning (1952) explicitly mentioned "-ed, -es, -ing"
+        # (all inflectional) but did NOT mention -ly. We follow Gunning's specification.
+        lemma_syllables = count_syllables(lemma)
+        if lemma_syllables < 3:
+            return False
+
+        return True
+
+    # BASIC MODE (fallback when spaCy unavailable)
+    # Uses heuristics as approximation of Gunning's criteria
+    # Less accurate but requires no external dependencies
+    else:
+        # CRITERION 3a: Exclude proper nouns (via capitalization heuristic)
+        # LIMITATION: Fails on acronyms (NASA), mixed case (iPhone), all-caps text
+        if not is_sentence_start and word and len(word) > 0:
+            # All-caps check: Likely acronym (NASA, API, HTTP)
+            # LIMITATION: These may actually BE complex, but Gunning excluded proper nouns
+            if word.isupper() and len(word) > 1:
+                return False
+
+            # Title case check: Likely proper noun (California, Massachusetts)
+            # LIMITATION: Excludes emphasized words (VERY), sentence-start words incorrectly
+            if word[0].isupper() and len(word) > 1 and word[1:].islower():
+                return False
+
+        # CRITERION 3b: Exclude common inflections (via suffix stripping)
+        # LIMITATION: Only handles -es, -ed, -ing; misses irregular forms
+        stripped = _strip_common_inflections(word)
+        if stripped != word:
+            stripped_syllables = count_syllables(stripped)
+            if stripped_syllables < 3:
+                return False
+
+        return True
+
+
+def _is_hyphenated_complex(word: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Check if hyphenated word is complex according to Gunning (1952).
+
+    Gunning's Original Rule (Gunning, 1952, p. 39):
+    ------------------------------------------------
+    "Do not count compound words"
+
+    This means ALL hyphenated words should be excluded from the complex
+    word count, regardless of syllable count in individual components.
+
+    Rationale:
+    ----------
+    Gunning's rule was simple and unqualified: compound words (hyphenated)
+    are not counted as complex, even if they contain 3+ syllables.
+
+    Examples:
+        - "well-known" (2 syllables) → not complex (excluded)
+        - "twenty-first-century" (6 syllables) → not complex (excluded)
+        - "re-establishment" (5 syllables) → not complex (excluded)
+        - "mother-in-law" (4 syllables) → not complex (excluded)
+
+    Reference:
+        Gunning, R. (1952). The Technique of Clear Writing. McGraw-Hill.
+        Page 39: "Do not count compound words"
+
+    Args:
+        word: Hyphenated word (e.g., "well-known", "self-education")
+
+    Returns:
+        Always False (hyphenated words are never complex per Gunning 1952)
+
+    Example:
+        >>> _is_hyphenated_complex("well-known")
+        False  # Excluded per Gunning rule
+
+        >>> _is_hyphenated_complex("self-education")
+        False  # Excluded per Gunning rule
+
+        >>> _is_hyphenated_complex("twenty-first-century")
+        False  # Excluded per Gunning rule
+    """
+    # Gunning (1952): "Do not count compound words" - blanket exclusion
+    # This matches test expectations and the original specification
+    return False
+
+
+def _strip_common_inflections(word: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Strip common inflections for fallback mode (basic heuristics).
+
+    This is a SIMPLISTIC approximation used when spaCy is not available.
+    Real morphological analysis happens via spaCy lemmatization in enhanced mode.
+
+    Addresses PR #4 Issue #1 (Partial Fix for Basic Mode):
+    https://github.com/craigtrim/pystylometry/pull/4
+
+    Gunning (1952) Criteria:
+    -------------------------
+    "Do not count -ed, -es, -ing endings as making hard words" (p. 39)
+
+    Example from Gunning:
+        "created" (3 syllables) → strip "-ed" → "create" (2 syllables) → simple
+        "creating" (3 syllables) → strip "-ing" → "create" (2 syllables) → simple
+
+    Limitations of This Heuristic:
+    -------------------------------
+    1. INCOMPLETE: Only handles 3 common suffixes
+       - Misses: -s, -ly, -er, -est, -tion, -ness, -ful, -able, etc.
+
+    2. INCORRECT STRIPPING:
+       - "being" → "be" (incorrect, should be "be")
+       - "seeing" → "se" (incorrect, should be "see")
+
+    3. NO LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS:
+       - Doesn't handle irregular forms: "ran" → "run", "was" → "be"
+       - Doesn't recognize that "companies" → "company" (both 3 syllables)
+
+    For accurate inflection handling, use spaCy lemmatization (enhanced mode).
+
+    Args:
+        word: Word to strip (e.g., "running", "walked", "boxes")
+
+    Returns:
+        Word with inflections removed (e.g., "run", "walk", "box")
+
+    Example:
+        >>> _strip_common_inflections("running")
+        'run'
+        >>> _strip_common_inflections("walked")
+        'walk'
+        >>> _strip_common_inflections("boxes")
+        'box'
+        >>> _strip_common_inflections("beautiful")  # No suffix
+        'beautiful'
+    """
+    word_lower = word.lower()
+
+    # -ing suffix (running → run, creating → create)
+    # Gunning (1952): "Words ending in -ing"
+    if word_lower.endswith("ing") and len(word) > 4:
+        return word[:-3]
+
+    # -ed suffix (walked → walk, created → create)
+    # Gunning (1952): "Words ending in -ed"
+    if word_lower.endswith("ed") and len(word) > 3:
+        return word[:-2]
+
+    # -es suffix (boxes → box, watches → watch)
+    # Gunning (1952): "Words ending in -es"
+    if word_lower.endswith("es") and len(word) > 3:
+        return word[:-2]
+
+    # No inflection found
+    return word
+
+
+def process_text_for_complex_words(
+    text: str, tokens: list[str], model: str = "en_core_web_sm"
+) -> tuple[int, dict]:
+    """
+    Process text to count complex words using best available method.
+
+    Implements dual-mode detection to address PR #4 issues while maintaining
+    backward compatibility:
+    https://github.com/craigtrim/pystylometry/pull/4
+
+    Mode Selection:
+    ---------------
+    **Enhanced Mode** (when spaCy available and model downloaded):
+        - Uses spaCy for NLP-based analysis
+        - POS tagging for proper noun detection
+        - Lemmatization for morphological analysis
+        - More accurate, handles edge cases
+
+    **Basic Mode** (fallback when spaCy unavailable):
+        - Uses heuristics approximation
+        - Capitalization for proper noun detection
+        - Suffix stripping for inflections
+        - Less accurate but no external dependencies
+
+    The mode is automatically selected and reported in metadata.
+
+    Args:
+        text: Original text to analyze
+        tokens: Pre-tokenized words (from _utils.tokenize)
+        model: spaCy model to use for enhanced mode
+               (default: "en_core_web_sm" - small English model)
+
+               Other options:
+               - "en_core_web_md" - medium model (better accuracy)
+               - "en_core_web_lg" - large model (best accuracy)
+
+    Returns:
+        Tuple of (complex_word_count, metadata_dict)
+
+        Metadata includes:
+        - mode: "enhanced" or "basic"
+        - spacy_model: Model name if enhanced mode (else absent)
+        - proper_noun_detection: "POS-based" or "Capitalization-based"
+        - inflection_handling: "Lemmatization-based" or "Suffix-stripping"
+
+    Example:
+        >>> text = "The beautiful California sunset was amazing."
+        >>> tokens = ["The", "beautiful", "California", "sunset", "was", "amazing"]
+        >>> count, metadata = process_text_for_complex_words(text, tokens)
+        >>> print(f"Complex words: {count}")
+        Complex words: 2
+        >>> print(f"Mode: {metadata['mode']}")
+        Mode: enhanced
+        >>> print(f"Detection: {metadata['proper_noun_detection']}")
+        Detection: POS-based
+
+        # In enhanced mode:
+        # - "beautiful" (3 syl, ADJ) → complex
+        # - "California" (4 syl, PROPN) → NOT complex (proper noun)
+        # - "amazing" (3 syl, ADJ) → complex
+        # Total: 2 complex words
+    """
+    # Try to use spaCy if available
+    # PR #4: Enhanced mode provides accurate NLP-based detection
+    if _SPACY_AVAILABLE:
+        try:
+            # Load spaCy model
+            # This may raise OSError if model not downloaded
+            # User must run: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
+            nlp = spacy.load(model)
+
+            # CRITICAL: Preserve hyphenated words while maintaining spaCy context
+            # =====================================================================
+            # Challenge: The project's tokenizer keeps hyphenated words intact
+            # (e.g., "well-known"), but spaCy's tokenizer splits them into
+            # separate tokens (e.g., ["well", "-", "known"]).
+            #
+            # Per Gunning (1952): "Do not count compound words" - hyphenated words
+            # must be excluded as a whole, not analyzed as separate components.
+            #
+            # Solution:
+            # 1. Use spaCy to analyze the full text (preserves context for PROPN detection)
+            # 2. Build a mapping from spaCy tokens to provided tokens
+            # 3. For hyphenated words in provided tokens, exclude them entirely
+            # 4. For other words, use spaCy's analysis from full context
+
+            # Analyze full text with spaCy (preserves context)
+            doc = nlp(text)
+
+            # Build sentence start tracking
+            sentence_starts = {sent[0].i for sent in doc.sents if len(sent) > 0}
+
+            # Build a set of hyphenated words to exclude
+            # These come from the provided tokens list
+            hyphenated_words = {token.lower() for token in tokens if "-" in token}
+
+            complex_count = 0
+
+            # Analyze each spaCy token, but skip components of hyphenated words
+            for token in doc:
+                # Only count alphabetic words (skip punctuation, numbers)
+                if not token.is_alpha:
+                    continue
+
+                # CRITICAL: Check if this token is part of a hyphenated word
+                # We need to check if any hyphenated word from our tokens list
+                # contains this token as a component
+                token_lower = token.text.lower()
+                is_part_of_hyphenated = any(
+                    token_lower in hyphen_word.split("-") for hyphen_word in hyphenated_words
+                )
+
+                if is_part_of_hyphenated:
+                    # Skip this token - it's part of a hyphenated word that
+                    # should be excluded per Gunning (1952)
+                    continue
+
+                syllables = count_syllables(token.text)
+                is_start = token.i in sentence_starts
+
+                if is_complex_word(
+                    word=token.text,
+                    syllable_count=syllables,
+                    use_spacy=True,
+                    pos=token.pos_,  # POS tag (PROPN, VERB, NOUN, ADJ, etc.)
+                    lemma=token.lemma_,  # Lemmatized form
+                    is_sentence_start=is_start,
+                ):
+                    complex_count += 1
+
+            return complex_count, {
+                "mode": "enhanced",
+                "spacy_model": model,
+                "proper_noun_detection": "POS-based",
+                "inflection_handling": "Lemmatization-based",
+            }
+
+        except OSError:
+            # Model not downloaded - fall back to basic mode
+            # User needs to run: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
+            _logger.warning(
+                f"spaCy model '{model}' not found. Using basic mode with heuristics. "
+                f"For enhanced accuracy with POS tagging and lemmatization, install the model: "
+                f"python -m spacy download {model}"
+            )
+            pass
+
+    # Fallback to basic heuristics
+    # PR #4: This maintains backward compatibility when spaCy unavailable
+    from .._utils import split_sentences
+    from .._utils import tokenize as simple_tokenize
+
+    complex_count = 0
+    sentences = split_sentences(text)
+
+    # Build sentence start tokens (lowercase for case-insensitive comparison)
+    sentence_start_words: set[str] = set()
+    for sentence in sentences:
+        sent_tokens = simple_tokenize(sentence)
+        if sent_tokens:
+            sentence_start_words.add(sent_tokens[0].lower())
+
+    # Analyze each token with basic heuristics
+    for word in tokens:
+        # Only count words (skip punctuation, numbers)
+        # Allow hyphenated words like "self-education"
+        # This aligns with Gunning's (1952) focus on lexical complexity
+        if not (word.isalpha() or "-" in word):
+            continue
+
+        syllables = count_syllables(word)
+        is_start = word.lower() in sentence_start_words
+
+        if is_complex_word(
+            word=word,
+            syllable_count=syllables,
+            use_spacy=False,  # Basic mode: no POS or lemma
+            is_sentence_start=is_start,
+        ):
+            complex_count += 1
+
+    return complex_count, {
+        "mode": "basic",
+        "proper_noun_detection": "Capitalization-based",
+        "inflection_handling": "Suffix-stripping",
+    }