Taipa

A library for analyzing and processing Taiwanese language. This library consists of the following functions and features:

• lemmatizing
• stemming
• inflecting
• morpheme-based morphological analysis
• graphemic analysis
• get underlying forms as output by inputing surface forms
• built-in hiragana, katakana, and Taiwanese kana

Client

• Client.processTonal
• Client.processKana

NPX

Once you have npm installed, you can run the command line to use the app on the fly on your terminal:
npx taipa

You can enter Roman alphabet chit:
> npx taipa chit

and get the information of each letter in return:
> npx taipa chit ch - initialConsonant i - vowel t - stopFinalConsonant

You can also supply the npx command with a dictionary:
npx taipa ./path/to/dictionary

After you enter Roman alphabet jinx:
> npx taipa ./path/to/dictionary jinx

You will get the entry from the dictionary in return. Assuming the path to your dictionary is ../dictionaries/example.json:
> node bin/app.js ../dictionaries/example.json jinx 人,仁

Make your own dictionaries and get the entries by entering a Taiwanese word, or even a partial word.

Development

On your terminal, run the following command:

git clone -b develop https://github.com/taipalogy/taipa

Git will create a folder named Taipa and clone all of the files in it.

Enter the folder Taipa, and run the following command to install required libraries as devDependencies:

npm install

npm will create a folder named node_modules and install all of the libraries in it.

Then run the following command to build:

npm run build

and to run test:

npm run test

app

See NPX section for details.

The app can also be executed by running the following command line, after you have run the command line npm run build:
node bin/app.js

appkana

After the command line npm run build is executed, you can run the following command line to launch the kana application:
node lib/appkana.js

You can input Roman alphabet,

> node lib/appkana.js katakana

and hit the enter key, the app will then print the kanas. For example:

> node lib/appkana.js katakana かたかな カタカナ