parsetc 0.4.1

Description:

parsetc 0.4.1

Parsing and conversion of Teochew Chinese romanizations


Parse and convert between different Teochew romanized spelling schemes.
parsetc represents romanization schemes as context-free grammars, and
implements parsers and translators using the
lark Python
library. The aim is to represent romanized text as an abstract parse tree
representing the phonology, which can then be converted to other romanization
schemes in a consistent, rule-based way.
Available romanization schemes for Teochew
Input

Geng'dang Pêng'im 廣東拼音 (gdpi)
Gaginang Peng'im 家己儂拼音 (ggn)
Gaginang Peng'im with coda -n allowed (nasalization written with ñ
instead) (ggnn)
Dieghv 潮語 (dieghv);
(source)
Tie-tsiann-hue 潮正會, also known as Tie-lo 潮羅 (tlo);
(source)
Duffus system (duffus), also known as Pe̍h-ūe-jī (PUJ);
(source)

Output
gdpi, ggnn, tlo, duffus, dieghv, plus:

Teochew Sinwenz (sinwz);
(source)
Traditional initial-final categories (15) from 《彙集雅俗通十五音》 also
known as 《擊木知音》, based on the analysis by 徐宇航
「《擊木知音》音系之再研究」 (2014)

Other languages
This tool was originally developed for Teochew, but can be extended in the
future to other dialects or languages. An experimental Cantonese module
(--language Cantonese) with Jyutping (jp) and Cantonese Pinyin (cpy) is
available.
Orthographic requirements for input text

Text must be in lower case, otherwise will be converted to lower case
Syllables may be written with or without tone numbers
Syllables may be combined into words for legibility, i.e. word-segmented
writing
If syllables are combined into words, they must either have tone numbers
(e.g. diê5ziu1), or use a syllable separator character (e.g. diê-ziu or
pêng'im, or diê5-ziu1). The separator character is either a hyphen or
single apostrophe. This is because of ambiguous parsings, e.g. pê-ngi-m
instead of pêng-im, which in general can only be dealt with by usage
frequency, which is not available.
If syllable separator characters are used, they must be used consistently.
Mixing conventions may cause unexpected parsing errors.

Installation
parsetc requires Python 3 and lark v1.1.
Install latest release with pip from PyPI:
pip install parsetc

If you are interested in latest development version, you can clone this
repository and checkout the dev branch, then install with pip from source
code:
pip install .

See help message:
parsetc --help

View available input and output schemes for Teochew:
parsetc --language Teochew --show_options

Usage
Command line tool
Input text is read line-by-line from STDIN. Output is written to STDOUT.
The language (--language or -l) is Teochew by default.
# Convert to Tie-lo
echo 'ua2 ain3 oh8 diê5ghe2, ain3 dan3 diê5ziu1 uê7.' | parsetc -i gdpi -o tlo
# Convert to all available output romanizations
echo 'ua2 ain3 oh8 diê5ghe2, ain3 dan3 diê5ziu1 uê7.' | parsetc -i gdpi --all
# Show parse tree (useful for debugging)
echo 'ua2 ain3 oh8 diê5ghe2, ain3 dan3 diê5ziu1 uê7.' | parsetc -i gdpi -p

Testing with sample texts in the examples/ folder:
# Example with tone numbers but no syllable separators
cat examples/teochew.dieghv.tones.txt | parsetc -i dieghv --all
# Example with hyphens as syllable separators
cat examples/teochew.dieghv.sep.txt | parsetc -i dieghv --all

Try a Cantonese example (work in progress):
echo "ceon1 min4 bat1 gok3 hiu2" | parsetc -l Cantonese -i jp --all
cat examples/cantonese.cpy.txt | parsetc -l Cantonese -i cpy --all

Python module
[ Work in progress. Updated docs coming soon... ]
Common functions and command line script are in the parsetc.parsetc
submodule. Each language has a dedicated subpackage with the following
structure (using Teochew as an example):
src/parsetc/Teochew/
├── shared.lark # lark grammar for shared parser rules
├── extends.json # lark %extend statements specific to individual schemes
├── terminals.json # dictionary of terminals for each scheme
├── mergers.json # dictionary of phonological mergers specific to individual schemes
├── parser.py # preprocessing and parser functions
└── translit.py # Translator classes

The lark rules and json files are the data required for the parsing and
translation functions in parser.py and translit.py.
Q & A


Q: Can I convert Chinese characters to romanization with parsetc?


A: No, it is for converting between different romanization systems only.


Q: parsetc makes a mistake, or it crashes when parsing a text. Can you fix it?


A: Please check first if you are using the latest version of parsetc (run
parsetc --version). If the error still persists, please file a bug report
on the Github issues page,
with the input text that caused the crash/error.


Q: Can I contribute code to this project?


A: You are welcome to look into the source code and fork/modfiy it. However,
I currently do not have the capacity to review pull requests and
contributions in detail, so please understand if I decline them or take a
long time to respond.


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