The Unicode cookbook for linguists : managing writing systems using orthography profiles / / Steven Moran, Michael Cysouw

• Autore: Moran Steven
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, : Language Science Press, 2018; Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 132 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 005.722
• Soggetto topico: Unicode (Computer character set); Language and languages - Orthography and spelling
• Soggetto non controllato: Linguistics
• Persona (resp. second.): CysouwMichael
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Writing systems -- Chapter 2: The Unicode approach -- Chapter 3: Unicode pitfalls -- Chapter 4: The International Phonetic Alphabet -- Chapter 5: IPA meets Unicode -- Chapter 6: Practical recommendations -- Chapter 7: Orthography profiles -- Chapter 8: Implementation
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Unicode cookbook for linguists
• ISBN: 3-96110-090-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910288757203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II