clj-thamil

clj-thamil is a Clojure library designed to be a multi-purpose library for Thamil computing.

It can be used for natural language processing, designing input methods, the UI for text editing, etc.

It can also be used as a basis for programming in Clojure in the Thamil language.

Currently, it can support the following:

• programming in Clojure (programming language) in Thamil (natural language)
• natural language processing for Thamil language text
  • split a string into Thamil letters (not characters) and phonemes
  • combine a sequence of Thamil phonemes back into a proper Thamil string
  • sort letters, words, etc. by Thamil alphabetical order
  • convert a string between Thamil (Unicode format) and:
    • English-transliterated formats
    • TAB format
    • TSCII format
    • Bamini format
    • Webulagam format
  • basic grammar functions - pluralize, add suffixes, and add noun case suffixes
• perform a letter frequency analysis on input Thamil text

For examples of programming in Thamil (natural language), see:

• test/clj_thamil/demo/core_test.clj - a gradual replacement of English into Thamil
• test/clj_thamil/demo/trans_demo_01.cljc - just about entirely in Thamil. Demonstrates squaring numbers differently.
• src/clj_thamil/மொழியியல்.cljc- just about entirely in Thamil. Contains functions for basic grammar in Thamil (making plurals, adding suffixes, adding noun case suffixes)

Building

For both Clojure and ClojureScript, compiling, testing, and starting a REPL can be done with the usual Leiningen commands lein compile, lein test, and lein repl.

Compile the source into an executable JAR file (runnable on the JVM, based on Clojure sources) using the command lein uberjar. This is all you need to do to run one of the standalone processes or create a jar artifact. lein install will install the artifact and pom.xml into your local Maven cache.

Usage

Examples

Java Examples

The Java example code is in the Maven project in this repostiory at examples/java/java-examples. See that page for instructions and building and running.

JavaScript Examples

The Clojure/-Script code in clj-thamil must be compiled using the ClojureScript compiler into JavaScript before it can used in JS runtimes (ex: webpages). In the JS exmaples directory [examples/js][(examples/js), first run sh setup.sh. Then load the HTML files located in the same directory from within a browser that has JS enabled.

• test01.html - transliteration of English into Thamil on a JS popup box
• test02.html - transliterates English into Thamil and splits Thamil into letter
• test03.html - sorting Thamil words by Thamil alphabetical order

Command-line processes

Letter frequencies

The frequency analysis program (freqs) can be run by

cat input | lein run freqs > output

The frequency analysis program takes input from the standard input stream and outputs to the standard output stream.

The code behind the letter frequency analysis can be found in the namespace clj-thamil.format.analysis.

Phonemes

The text to phoneme converter program (phonemes) can be run by

cat input | lein run phonemes > output

The phonemes program takes input from the standard input stream and outputs to the standard output stream.

The code behind the phoneme conversion can be found in the namespaces clj-thamil.subprograms and clj-thamil.format.

Editing

For programming in Thamil, if using a computer running Mac OS X, use the Aquamacs program (a Mac OS X-friendly version of Emacs) to ensure that support for Thamil letters works correctly. If installing the clojure-mode package for Clojure support in Aquamacs, find the clojure-mode.el file in your Aquamacs MELPA/ELPA repository, and replace it with the file emacs/clojure-mode.el in this repository. Then load the newly-saved clojure-mode.el file in the Aquamacs package repository into Aquamacs, and run the command M-x emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load.

Mailing List

Join the clj-thamil mailing list to post questions and receive announcements.

License

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.