Taipa

A library for analyzing and processing Taiwanese language. This library consists of the following functions and features:

- lemmatizing
- stemming
- inflecting
- morpheme-based morphological analysis
- graphemic analysis
- get underlying forms as output by inputing surface forms
- built-in hiragana, katakana, and Taiwanese kana

Client

- Client.processTonal
- Client.processKana

NPX

Once you have npm installed, you can run the command line to use the app on the fly on your terminal:

npx taipa

You can enter Roman alphabet chit and get the information of each letter in return. For example,

ch - initialConsonant

,

i - vowel

, and

t - stopFinalConsonant

will be printed in sequence on the screen.

You can also supply the npx command with a dictionary:

npx taipa ./path/to/dictionary

After you enter Roman alphabet jinx, you will get the entry from the dictionary in return. Assuming the path to your dictionary is ../dictionaries/example.json:

> node bin/app.js ../dictionaries/example.json

and you will get the following results in return:

人,仁

Make your own dictionaries and get the entries by entering a word, or even a partial word.

Development

On your terminal, run the following command:

git clone -b develop https://github.com/taipalogy/taipa

Git will create a folder named Taipa and clone all of the files in it.

Enter the folder Taipa, and run the following command to install required libraries as devDependencies:

npm install

npm will create a folder named node_modules and install all of the libraries in it.

Then run the following command to build:

npm run build

and to run test:

npm run test

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See NPX section for details.

The app can also be executed by running the following command line, after you have run the command line npm run build:

node bin/app.js

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The latest changes are available on develop branch.

Repos

Go to https://github.com/taipalogy/apps to see examples of application.

Go to https://github.com/taipalogy/dictionaries to see examples of dictionary.