The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles

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dc.contributor.author	Moran, Steven
dc.contributor.author	Cysouw, Michael
dc.date.accessioned	2019-06-13T05:58:09Z
dc.date.available	2019-06-13T05:58:09Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.identifier.isbn	9783961100903
dc.identifier.uri	http://oer.just.edu.jo/xmlui/handle/123456789/267
dc.identifier.uri	http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/176
dc.description	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.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Language Science Press	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.title	The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US