Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Text-Processing-Tools

In this lesson, several useful linguistic tools useful for common language learners are discussed. They are not always accurate, so keep in mind.

Many of the tools introduced are written in Python, which is an important language in machine learning and easy to learn.

If you don't know Python, please try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQrJ0TkZlc

In progress.

Diacritisation

In Arabic writing system, diacritics indicate the accents, but they are often omitted for writing fluently. The process of restoring diacritics is called diacritisation.

Arabic:

• Arabycia https://github.com/mohabmes/Arabycia
• Farasa https://github.com/MagedSaeed/farasapy
• Mishkal https://sourceforge.net/projects/mishkal/
• Pipeline-diacritizer https://github.com/Hamza5/Pipeline-diacritizer
• Shakkala https://github.com/Barqawiz/Shakkala
• Shakkelha https://github.com/AliOsm/shakkelha

Lemmatisation

When you search a word in inflected form, the dictionary program can show you the result as lemma, during which the lemmatisation is done.

multiple languages:

• CST's lemmatiser https://www.cst.dk/online/lemmatiser/
• Pattern https://github.com/clips/pattern
• Simplemma https://github.com/adbar/simplemma
• TextBlob https://textblob.readthedocs.io/

English:

• LemmInflect https://github.com/bjascob/LemmInflect
• Natural Language Toolkit https://www.nltk.org/

German:

• GermaLemma https://github.com/WZBSocialScienceCenter/germalemma

Hungarian:

• HuSpaCy https://github.com/huspacy/huspacy

Persian:

• Hazm https://github.com/roshan-research/hazm

Turkish:

• Zeyrek https://github.com/obulat/zeyrek

Pitch-Accent Marking

In Japanese and other languages, the pitch-accent is important on distinguishing different words. They are unwritten and required.

Japanese:

• Prosody Tutor Suzuki-kun http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/phrasing/index
• tdmelodic https://github.com/PKSHATechnology-Research/tdmelodic

Stress Marking

In Russian and other languages, the stress is important on distinguishing different words. They are usually omitted.

Russian:

• RussianGram https://russiangram.com/
• Russian Stress Finder https://www.readyrussian.org/WebApps/StressFinder/

Transcription

Some languages are written in more than one writing systems. This tool converts them from one to another.

Chinese:

• Chinese-Tools.com https://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/converter-simptrad.html
• ChineseConverter.com https://www.chineseconverter.com/en/convert/simplified-to-traditional
• hanzi2reading https://github.com/bdon/hanzi2reading
• OMGChinese.com https://www.omgchinese.com/tools/chinese-simplified-traditional-converter

Part of Speech Tagging

It tags words in the sentence with parts of speech. Some of them can draw parse trees.

Multiple languages:

• CoreNLP https://github.com/stanfordnlp/CoreNLP
• Natural Language Toolkit https://www.nltk.org/
• spaCy https://spacy.io/
• Stanford Log-linear Part-Of-Speech Tagger https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tagger.shtml

Arabic:

• Arabycia https://github.com/mohabmes/Arabycia

Chinese:

• FoolNLTK https://github.com/rockyzhengwu/FoolNLTK
• FudanNLP https://github.com/FudanNLP/fnlp
• HanLP https://github.com/hankcs/HanLP
• LAC https://github.com/baidu/lac
• LTP https://github.com/HIT-SCIR/ltp
• SnowNLP https://github.com/isnowfy/snownlp
• pkuseg https://github.com/lancopku/pkuseg-python
• pyhanlp https://github.com/hankcs/pyhanlp
• THULAC https://github.com/thunlp/THULAC-Python

Japanese:

• janome https://github.com/mocobeta/janome
• Juman++ https://github.com/ku-nlp/jumanpp
• Kagome https://github.com/ikawaha/kagome
• Kuromoji https://github.com/atilika/kuromoji / https://github.com/takuyaa/kuromoji.js/
• KyTea http://www.phontron.com/kytea/
• MeCab https://taku910.github.io/mecab/
• nagisa https://github.com/taishi-i/nagisa
• Sudachi https://github.com/WorksApplications/Sudachi / https://github.com/WorksApplications/SudachiPy

Thai:

• PyThaiNLP https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp
• SynThai https://github.com/KrakenAI/SynThai
• TLTK https://pypi.org/project/tltk/

Vietnamese:

• JVnSegmenter http://jvnsegmenter.sourceforge.net/
• VnCoreNLP https://github.com/vncorenlp/VnCoreNLP

Romanisation

multiple languages:

• Translit https://translit.cc/

Iranian Persian:

• Behnevis: easy farsi transliteration (pinglish) editor https://behnevis.com/en/

Japanese:

• NihongoDera - Romaji Converter https://nihongodera.com/tools/romaji-converter

Korean:

• 한국어/로마자 변환기 http://roman.cs.pusan.ac.kr/

Mandarin Chinese:

• Chinese Romanization Converter https://chinese.gratis/tools/zhuyin/

Standard Arabic:

• Romanize Arabic ALA-LC http://romanize-arabic.camel-lab.com/

Thai:

• thai-language.com Romanize an Arbitrary Thai Word http://thai-language.com/?nav=dictionary&anyxlit=1
• Phonetic transliteration of Thai https://www.thailit.com/transliterate.php

Word Segmentation

In some languages, words are not separated by spaces, for example: Chinese, Japanese, Khmer, Lao, Thai. In Vietnamese, spaces are used to divide syllables instead of words. This brings about difficulties for computer programs like VocabHunter, gritz and text-memorize, where words are detected only with spaces.

The solution is called “word segmentation”, which detects words and insert spaces in between or put the segmented words into a list.

Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Thai:

• Chamkho https://codeberg.org/mekong-lang/chamkho

Burmese:

• Myan-word-breaker https://github.com/stevenay/myan-word-breaker

Chinese:

• Ansj https://github.com/NLPchina/ansj_seg
• FoolNLTK https://github.com/rockyzhengwu/FoolNLTK
• FudanNLP https://github.com/FudanNLP/fnlp
• HanLP https://github.com/hankcs/HanLP
• jieba https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba
• LAC https://github.com/baidu/lac
• LTP https://github.com/HIT-SCIR/ltp
• SnowNLP https://github.com/isnowfy/snownlp
• pkuseg https://github.com/lancopku/pkuseg-python
• pyhanlp https://github.com/hankcs/pyhanlp
• THULAC https://github.com/thunlp/THULAC-Python

Japanese:

• janome https://github.com/mocobeta/janome
• Juman++ https://github.com/ku-nlp/jumanpp
• Kagome https://github.com/ikawaha/kagome
• Kuromoji https://github.com/atilika/kuromoji / https://github.com/takuyaa/kuromoji.js/
• KyTea http://www.phontron.com/kytea/
• MeCab https://taku910.github.io/mecab/
• nagisa https://github.com/taishi-i/nagisa
• Sudachi https://github.com/WorksApplications/Sudachi / https://github.com/WorksApplications/SudachiPy

Lao:

• Lao Word-Segmentation https://github.com/frankxayachack/LaoWordSegmentation

Thai:

• Cutkum https://github.com/pucktada/cutkum
• CutThai https://github.com/pureexe/cutthai
• Deepcut https://github.com/rkcosmos/deepcut
• PyThaiNLP https://github.com/PyThaiNLP/pythainlp
• SWATH https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~paisarn/software.html
• SynThai https://github.com/KrakenAI/SynThai
• TLTK https://pypi.org/project/tltk/
• wordcut https://github.com/veer66/wordcut / https://github.com/veer66/wordcutpy

Vietnamese:

• DongDu https://github.com/rockkhuya/DongDu
• JVnSegmenter http://jvnsegmenter.sourceforge.net/
• VietSeg https://github.com/manhtai/vietseg
• VnCoreNLP https://github.com/vncorenlp/VnCoreNLP

Other Lessons

• Internet Dictionaries
• Astrology in different Cultures and Languages
• How to make a TSV file
• Texts and Audios under a Public License
• Calendar and Clock
• Online Specialized Dictionaries
• Similar Sayings
• Elements of Traditional Architectures: Western Europe
• Helpful Anki Shared Decks
• Internet resources for learning specific languages