[sword-devel] Languages without a space between words

[David Haslam]

Unlike Hebrew and Arabic, etc, none of the names of the Thai Unicode characters contain the word FINAL. Likewise for Myanmar letters.

A possible way forward might be to run one of the several Word Segmentation programs on the text of the ThaiKJV.

Examples: KuCut, DeepCut, AttaCut

This should insert a Unicode zero width non-joiner (ZWNJ) as a word separator.

NB. The module would have to be updated using the segmented source text.

Visually, the resulting text would display the same as the original, but the module would be amenable to indexing for word searches.

A difficulty that might then arise is how the front-end user might enter the search query for an exact phrase search type (containing more than one word). Other search types (all words, any word) might be OK as is.

Aside: The KuCut method developed in 2004 was originally trained using the text of the ThaKJV.

Regards,

David

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 17:16, Peter Von Kaehne <[refdoc at gmx.net](mailto:On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 17:16, Peter Von Kaehne <<a href=)> wrote:

> Does Thai Burmese etc etc use end forms for letters? if so, are these encoded as such?
>
> Peter
> Gesendet: Montag, 17. April 2023 um 16:47 Uhr
> Von: "David Haslam" <dfhdfh at protonmail.com>
> An: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> Betreff: [sword-devel] Languages without a space between words
> How (if at all) does the SWORD API generate a search index for a module that is for a language without a space between words?
>
> Please consider how best to generate a useful search index for modules that are
> for Bible translations in languages that have no spaces between words.
>
> Example: CrossWire module ThaiKJV
>
> See
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writing_systems_without_word_boundaries
>
> Has this ever been considered before.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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