A Roadmap for Universal Syllabic Segmentation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F23%3A00132504" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/23:00132504 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.5300/2023-3-4/125" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.5300/2023-3-4/125</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5300/2023-3-4/125" target="_blank" >10.5300/2023-3-4/125</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

A Roadmap for Universal Syllabic Segmentation

Original language description

Space- and time-effective segmentation (word hyphenation) of natural languages remains at the core of every document rendering system, be it TeX, web browser, or mobile operating system. In most languages, segmentation mimicking syllabic pronunciation is a pragmatic preference today. <p> As language switching is often not marked in rendered texts, the typesetting engine needs <i>universal syllabic segmentation</i>. In this article, we show the feasibility of this idea by offering a prototype solution to two main problems:<br /> A) Using <tt>Patgen</tt> to generate patterns for several languages at once; and<br /> B) lack of Unicode support in tools like <tt>Patgen</tt> or TeX (patterns in UTF-16 encoding) is missing. </p> <p> For A), we have applied it to generating universal syllabic patterns from wordlists of nine syllabic, as opposed to etymology-based, languages (namely, Czech, Slovak, Georgian, Greek, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Turkmen, and Ukrainian).<br /> For B), we have created a version of <tt>Patgen</tt> that uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array"> Judy array</a> data structure and compared its effectiveness with the trie implementation. </p> <p> With the data from these nine languages, we show that:<br /> A) developing universal, up-to-date, high-coverage, and highly generalized universal syllabic segmentation patterns is possible, with a high impact on virtually all typesetting engines, including web page renderers; and<br /> B) bringing wide character support into the hyphenation part of the TeX suite of programs is possible by using Judy arrays.</p>

Czech name

A Roadmap for Universal Syllabic Segmentation

Czech description

Space- and time-effective segmentation (word hyphenation) of natural languages remains at the core of every document rendering system, be it TeX, web browser, or mobile operating system. In most languages, segmentation mimicking syllabic pronunciation is a pragmatic preference today. <p> As language switching is often not marked in rendered texts, the typesetting engine needs <i>universal syllabic segmentation</i>. In this article, we show the feasibility of this idea by offering a prototype solution to two main problems:<br /> A) Using <tt>Patgen</tt> to generate patterns for several languages at once; and<br /> B) lack of Unicode support in tools like <tt>Patgen</tt> or TeX (patterns in UTF-16 encoding) is missing. </p> <p> For A), we have applied it to generating universal syllabic patterns from wordlists of nine syllabic, as opposed to etymology-based, languages (namely, Czech, Slovak, Georgian, Greek, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Turkmen, and Ukrainian).<br /> For B), we have created a version of <tt>Patgen</tt> that uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array"> Judy array</a> data structure and compared its effectiveness with the trie implementation. </p> <p> With the data from these nine languages, we show that:<br /> A) developing universal, up-to-date, high-coverage, and highly generalized universal syllabic segmentation patterns is possible, with a high impact on virtually all typesetting engines, including web page renderers; and<br /> B) bringing wide character support into the hyphenation part of the TeX suite of programs is possible by using Judy arrays.</p>

Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zpravodaj CSTUG

ISSN

1211-6661

e-ISSN

1213-8185

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3-4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

125-138

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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