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title: The Language Transliteration Project |
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emoji: 🔡 |
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colorFrom: indigo |
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colorTo: gray |
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sdk: streamlit |
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sdk_version: 1.25.0 |
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app_file: app.py |
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pinned: false |
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license: cc |
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--- |
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Use this application on HuggingFace🤗 :- https://huggingface.co/spaces/DebasishDhal99/The-Language-Transliteration-Project |
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Blog discussing the results :- https://medium.com/@debasishdhaldd99/simplifying-language-through-python-aae6ee7113d9 |
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This space is aimed at helping people with getting familiarized with Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian-Bosniak (both Latin and Cyrillic based) and Romanian spelling system. |
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**Why?** |
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The languages mentioned above, use a modified Latin script with a lot of diacritic marks and digraphs, thus often making them difficult for non-native speakers to pronounce or read the words |
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properly. This space offers simplified spelling of words/sentence in the said languages. More languages are on the pipeline. |
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For example, the Polish word Jarosław, an English speaker who isn't familiar with Polish orthography will pronounce it as Jaroslav, while its actual Polish pronunciation |
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is Yaroswav. Similary, the city of Przemyśl should be pronounced as Pzhemyshl, even though its not evident to an English speaker. |
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The approach for transliterating Polish language taken in this space is converting Polish character combinations to Cyrillic equivalents, which are single characters, thus |
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simplifying our task greately. |
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Features added as of now:- |
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- Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian, Romanian language added. |
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- Option for the user to choose any of the 3-4 examples available and pass it as input to the model. |
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- Option for the user to generate a random but coherent sentence and pass it as input to the model. Acts as a nice playground for the user. |
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# Results in brief |
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For each language, some names/placenames in that language were given to this web app as input, the simplified outputs are presented below. |
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## Polish |
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Polish spelling => Simplified form |
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- Wojciech Szczęsny => Voytsiekh Shensny (Polish footballer) |
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- Grzegorz Krychowiak => Gzhegozh Krykhoviak (zh is pronounced like the "s" in measure/vision) (Polish footballer) |
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- Łódź => Wuj (Major Polish city) |
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- Rzeszow => Zheshov (Polish city near Ukraine) |
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## Hungarian |
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Hungarian spelling => Simplified form |
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- Dominik Szoboszlai => Dominik Soboslai (Hungarian footballer) |
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- Budapest => Budapesht (Hungarian capital) |
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- Debrecen => Debretsen (Major Hungarian city) |
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- Pozsony => Pozhony (Hungarian name for Bratislava) |
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## Turkish |
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Turkish spelling => Simplified form |
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- Azerbaycan => Azerbayjan |
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- Türkiye => Tyurkiye |
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- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan => Rejep Tayyip Erdo’an (Turkish president) |
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- Barış Alper Yılmaz => Barış Alper Yelmaz (Turkish footballer) |
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## Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian |
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Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian spelling => Simplified form |
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- Novak Đoković => Novak Jokovich (No introduction needed) |
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- Karadžić => Karajich (Serbain war criminal) |
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- Edin Džeko => Edin Jeko (Bosnian Footballer) |
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- Artiljerija => Artilyeriya (Artillery) |
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## Romanian |
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Romanian spelling => Simplified form |
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- Cluj-Napoca => Kluzh Napoka (A city in Romanian Translyvania) |
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- București => Bukureshti (Bucharest) |
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- Angela Gheorghiu => Anjela Georgiu (Romanian singer) |
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- Constantin Brâncuși => Konstantin Brunkushi (Romanian Sculptor) |
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Check out the configuration reference at https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference |
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