Graph Transliterator Javascript¶
A partial Javascript/Node implementation of Graph Transliterator, graph-based transliteration tool that lets you convert the symbols of one language or script to those of another using rules that you define.
Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://graphtransliterator-js.readthedocs.io
Repository: https://github.com/seanpue/graphtransliterator-js
Transliteration… What? Why?¶
Moving text or data from one script or encoding to another is a common problem:
Many languages are written in multiple scripts, and many people can only read one of them. Moving between them can be a complex but necessary task in order to make texts accessible.
The identification of names and locations, as well as machine translation, benefit from transliteration.
Library systems often require metadata be in particular forms of romanization in addition to the original script.
Linguists need to move between different methods of phonetic transcription.
Documents in legacy fonts must now be converted to contemporary Unicode ones.
Complex-script languages are frequently approached in natural language processing and in digital humanities research through transliteration, as it provides disambiguating information about pronunciation, morphological boundaries, and unwritten elements not present in the original script.
Graph Transliterator abstracts transliteration, offering an “easy reading” method for developing transliterators that does not require writing a complex program. It also contains bundled transliterators that are rigorously tested. These can be expanded to handle many transliteration tasks.
Graph Transliterator Javascript provides access to Graph Transliterator’s bundled transliterators, as well as any JSON-dumped graph transliterator.
Features¶
Graph Transliterator Javascript provides:
a partial Javascript/Node implementation of Graph Transliterator (a Python library and CLI)
bundled transliterators from Graph Transliterator
processing of the JSON dump of a Graph Transliterator
convenient client-side Javascript libraries
Installation¶
Graph Transliterator Javascript is a Node.js module. It can be installed using npm:
$ npm install --save graphtransliterator
It can also be used independently as a client-side Javascript library.