Taiwanese morphological parsing library
npm install taipaA 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.processTonal
- Client.processKana
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.
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
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
The latest changes are available on develop branch.
Go to https://github.com/taipalogy/apps to see examples of application.
Go to https://github.com/taipalogy/dictionaries to see examples of dictionary.