LaoNLP

Lao language Natural Language Processing toolkit

Awesome Lao NLP: https://github.com/wannaphong/Awesome-Lao-NLP

Features

• Word tokenizer
• Syllable tokenizer
• Sentence tokenizer
• Part-of-speech
• Lao to Thai script
• Thai to Lao script
• Romanization (AnyASCII, MOH 2020, IPA)
• Word dictionary
• Word Vector
• Split Lao text into grapheme clusters (characters with tone marks)

Install

pip install laonlp

Installation Options

Some functionalities, like word vectors, may require extra packages. To install those requirements, specify a set of [name] immediately after laonlp:

pip install laonlp[extra1,extra2,...]

List of possible extras

• full (install everything)
• word_vector (for support of word vector functionalities)

For dependency details, look at extras variable in setup.py.

Documentation: https://github.com/wannaphong/LaoNLP/wiki

Citations

If you use LaoNLP in your project or publication, please cite the library as follows

Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun. (2022). LaoNLP: Lao language Natural Language Processing. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6833407

or BibTeX entry:

@misc{wannaphong_phatthiyaphaibun_2022_6833407,
  author       = {Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun},
  title        = {LaoNLP: Lao language Natural Language Processing},
  month        = jul,
  year         = 2022,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.6833407},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6833407}
}

License

   Copyright 2020 - 2026 Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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