indicparser 0.0.10

Grapheme Parser for indic languages

indicparser

Grapheme Parser for indic languages

Installaton

pip install indicparser

Useage

• initializing the parser

from indicparser import graphemeParser
gp=graphemeParser("bangla")

• extracting graphemes

text="  শাটিকাপ   মার"
graphemes=gp.process(text)
print("Graphemes:",graphemes)

Graphemes: [' ', ' ', 'শা', 'টি', 'কা', 'প', ' ', ' ', ' ', 'মা', 'র']

• extracting graphemes but merging spaces and clearing initial and ending space

graphemes=gp.process(text,merge_spaces=True)
print("Graphemes (space corrected):",graphemes)

Graphemes (space corrected): ['শা', 'টি', 'কা', 'প', ' ', 'মা', 'র']

• treatment of numbers and puntucation and english is also available by default

text="এটাকি 2441139 ? না ভাই wrong number"
graphemes=gp.process(text,merge_spaces=True)
print("Graphemes:",graphemes)

Graphemes: ['এ', 'টা', 'কি', ' ', '2', '4', '4', '1', '1', '3', '9', ' ', '?', ' ', 'না', ' ', 'ভা', 'ই', ' ', 'w', 'r', 'o', 'n', 'g', ' ', 'n', 'u', 'm', 'b', 'e', 'r']

• available languages

from indicparser import languages
languages.keys()

dict_keys(['bangla', 'malyalam', 'tamil', 'gujrati', 'panjabi', 'odiya', 'hindi','nagri'])

Normalization

• For best results use normalized text before parsing
• An example bangla unicode normalizer can be found here

ABOUT

• Authors: Bengali.AI

• Cite Bengali.AI multipurpose grapheme dataset paper

@inproceedings{alam2021large,
  title={A large multi-target dataset of common bengali handwritten graphemes},
  author={Alam, Samiul and Reasat, Tahsin and Sushmit, Asif Shahriyar and Siddique, Sadi Mohammad and Rahman, Fuad and Hasan, Mahady and Humayun, Ahmed Imtiaz},
  booktitle={International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  pages={383--398},
  year={2021},
  organization={Springer}
}

Change Log

0.0.1 (12/02/2022)

• First Release

0.0.2 (12/02/2022)

• Basic Documentation
• Modifier removal
• space correction
• text mode parser

0.0.3 (14/02/2022)

• Connector ending
• Exception case for component construction in bangla
• Added test

0.0.4 (14/02/2022)

• pip test stable
• added malformed word detection

0.0.5 (19/02/2022)

• encoding correction
• no space char handling

0.0.6 (15/04/2022)

• removed malformed word detection [not useful]
• removed component calculation [not consistent]

0.0.7 (26/04/2022)

• addition order correction

0.0.8 (21/10/2022)

• allow middle Connector

0.0.9 (31/12/2022)

• added sylheti nagri

0.0.10 (31/12/2022)

• added sylheti nagri alternate hosonto