hfst-altlab 0.0.1.dev1

A python wrapper for accessing Helsinki Finite State Transducers used at ALTLab

hfst-altlab

A wrapper on the hfst python package, currently working as a replacement for hfst-optimized-lookup, built for itwêwina.

Languages currently supported:

• python

hfst is a great toolkit with all sorts of functionality, and is indispensable for building FSTs, but for various applications that only want to do unweighted hfstol lookups, this package may be easier to use.

Although eventually we want to restore maintenance of the hfst-optimized-lookup package, as it follows a more lightweight approach, we are in the process of contacting the maintainers of the pypi package to take over. In the meantime, we want to use this project as an upstream-synced implementation and as a way to explore more advanced behaviours that can be useful for many language projects (especially for morphodict). In particular, we wanted to extend the API to account for weighted FSTs and we intend to explore making flag diacritics available in the not-so-distant future.