29.3247, Books: The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Moran, Cysouw

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Subject: 29.3247, Books: The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Moran, Cysouw

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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:29:16
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Moran, Cysouw

 


Title: The Unicode cookbook for linguists 
Subtitle: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles 
Series Title: Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/176 


Author: Steven Moran
Author: Michael Cysouw

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961100903 Pages: 148 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with
data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic
concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings
function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode
Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are
often met with frustration by users, they nevertheless provide language
researchers and programmers with a consistent computational architecture
needed to process, publish and analyze lexical data from the world's
languages. Thus we bring to light common, but not always transparent, pitfalls
which researchers face when working with Unicode and IPA. Having identified
and overcome these pitfalls involved in making writing systems and character
encodings syntactically and semantically interoperable (to the extent that
they can be), we created a suite of open-source Python and R tools to work
with languages using orthography profiles that describe author- or
document-specific orthographic conventions. In this cookbook we describe a
formal specification of orthography profiles and provide recipes using open
source tools to show how users can segment text, analyze it, identify errors,
and to transform it into different written forms for comparative linguistics
research.

This book is a prime example of open publishing as envisioned by Language
Science Press. It is open access, has accompanying open source software, has
open peer review, versioning and so on. Read more in this blog post:
https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2018/07/11/what-it-means-to-be-op
en-and-community-based-the-unicode-cookbook-as-a-showcase/
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Writing Systems


Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=129594




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