GlotScript 1.0

A package for detecting the script (writing system) of given text.

GlotScript

Detect the script (writing system) of text based on ISO 15924.

• Unicode version: 15.0.0
• The codes were sourced from Wikipedia ISO_15924.
• Unicode ranges were extracted from Unicode Character Database.

Special codes

• Zinh code is the Unicode script property value of characters that may be used with multiple scripts, and that inherit their script from a preceding base character. In some cases, we opted to integrate parts of the Zinh code (e.g. ARABIC FATHATAN..ARABIC HAMZA BELOW, ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALEF) into a different block.
• Zyyy code is the Unicode script for "Common" characters.

Install from pip

pip3 install GlotScript

Install from git

pip3 install GlotScript@git+https://github.com/cisnlp/GlotScript

Usage

from GlotScript import get_script_predictor
sp = get_script_predictor()

sp('これは日本人です')
>> ('Hira', 0.625, {'details': {'Hira': 0.625, 'Hani': 0.375}, 'tie': False, 'interval': 0.25})

sp('This is Latin')[:1]
>> ('Latn', 1.0)

sp('මේක සිංහල')[0]
>> 'Sinh'

sp('𝄞𝄫  𒊕𒀸')
>> ('Xsux', 0.5, {'details': {'Xsux': 0.5, 'Zyyy': 0.5}, 'tie': True, 'interval': 0.0})

Citation

If you use any part of this library in your research, please cite it using the following BibTex entry.

@misc{glotscript,
  author = {Kargaran, Amir Hossein and Yvon, Fran{\c{c}}ois and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
  title = {GlotScript},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub Repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/cisnlp/GlotScript}},
}

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