Re^4: Creating new character classes for foreign languages

[Polyglot]

in reply to Re^3: Creating new character classes for foreign languages
in thread Creating new character classes for foreign languages

Yes, I have looked at that Lingua::TH module. It fails to build on my system, and I have a hard enough time troubleshooting my own code, much less someone else's. The .pm file it has is only 2.2k, which amounts to a very slim algorithm for splitting Thai, as Thai is rather a complex problem when it comes to splitting. I'm actually leaning toward a lexical approach, and working on building a word list in Thai.

In fact, I encountered errors of the wrong number of arguments upon running the 'perl Makefile.PL' command, and commented about five lines in the Makefile.PL before it would run...only to see a warning that the library file referred to was not present. So I'm thinking that it was designed to accompany some additional file, possibly a word lexicon.

This is one of the reasons I'm embarking on this journey now. There is virtually nothing in CPAN for the Thai language, or for Lao either. (And I did some reading on CPAN today, having never submitted anything there before, and learned that a module's NAMESPACE is supposed to be community directed...but I know of no Thai community among Perl monks.)

My needs go beyond splitting syllables. I plan to create a program which will translate Thai to Lao. There are some specific vowels and consonants that must be transposed in the exchange. Syllable splitting is a beginning, but only a part of the process. These tools I am packaging would be useful for many other purposes as well.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

[graff]

So I'm thinking that it was designed to accompany some additional file, possibly a word lexicon.

Yes, that module is clearly intended to serve only as a wrapper around a separate compiled software library (not written in perl), provided here: http://thaiwordseg.sourceforge.net/.

You have to install that library first (which will probably involve a simple sequence like ./configure; make; make install), and then try installing the perl module, which should include some tests that confirm whether the library was found and turns out to work as intended.

[jgamble]

I have nothing to add here, but I want to say that this is a fascinating thread and I want to thank you for starting it.