kwl 0.2016.2.25

Utilities for KWL: kasahorow Writer's Language

# kwl KWL is a semantic representation of natural language. A KWL representation can be transformed into any natural language with a grammar and a dictionary of that language.

For example, <kwl nom:dog ; kwl> becomes [kraman (Akan), dog (English), chien (French)]

<kwl pro:you tdy(tu(act:be)) det:a(adj:important_nom:person). ; kwl> becomes [ You are an important person (English) ]

Try it here: http://write.kasahorow.org/kwl

# Installation

python setup.py install

# Testing

You can transform simple English into KWL representation, and then convert the KWL representation into any of the supported languages. Note that all the text is in lowercase.

## Text to KWL

• python -m kwl ‘the dog’

## KWL to Text

• python -m kwl ‘det:the_nom:dog’ akan

• python -m kwl ‘det:the_nom:dog’ english

• python -m kwl ‘det:the_nom:dog’ oromo

• python -m kwl ‘det:the_nom:dog’ swahili

# Supported kasahorow languages This means that you can get functional representations into these languages. You still need a native speaker to confirm correctness!

• akan

• chewa

• gadangme

• gbe

• gikuyu

• hausa

• lingala

• luganda

• luwo

• zulu

## How to add a new language This is simple to do (but not well documented yet). However, there are 2 main steps: - add a dictionary of the language in the data/ directory - set up grammar rules for the language in the kwl2text/models.py, kwl2text/l10n.py and kwl2text/libconjugate.py files