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141 lines
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Provides the classes to take Tibetan language passages and divide the passages up
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into their component phrases and words, and display corresponding dictionary definitions.
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<p>This tool helps Tibetan to English translators partially automate the
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translation process. In the Tibetan language, the boundaries of individual words
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are not marked in any manner such as the way in which spaces separate and mark
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words in English. Instead, there is
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a punctuation mark called a "tsheg" which separates each syllable. Thus while syllabic boundaries are utterly explicit, word boundaries are
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often unclear. One of the main
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difficulties beginning students thus have with translating Tibetan texts is
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figuring out where each word ends and the next word starts, and determining what
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series of syllables to look up in the dictionary either as constituting a single
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word or a larger compound phrase. This
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entails a very time consuming process of looking up multiple combinations of
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syllables to determine which are found within a given dictionary.</p>
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<p>It partially automates that process by
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breaking up a sentence/paragraph entered in <a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/ewts.pdf" target="_blank">
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Extended Wylie</a> or Tibetan script
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into the biggest component parts it can find in multiple dictionary databases.
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Then for each component part found, it displays its stored definitions and
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relevant information. This will
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thus often yield only the definition of a long phrase, rather than its component
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words, but one can also search for the syllables of that phrase one by one
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separately.</p>
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<p>The tool can run on-line through a:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Java servlet (using Roman script for input and Tibetan script for output)
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directly on a browser<p>The text is typed (or pasted) using <a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/ewts.pdf" target="_blank">
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Extended Wylie</a> in a
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text box within a form. All of the processing is done on the server, and the
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results are returned in plain HTML. This allows the user to run this version on
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even the most basic browser without needing any additional software installed.
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Also, because the results are returned in HTML, features of HTML like
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hyperlinks, tables, and text formatting allow it to be skimmed more easily. The
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user can choose between seeing the Tibetan within the results in <a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/ewts.pdf" target="_blank">
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Extended Wylie</a> or in Tibetan script
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(<a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/tmw.html" target="_blank">using
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Tibetan Machine Web font now available for free</a>).<br>
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</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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Java applet & application (using Tibetan script for both input and output)
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communicating to a servlet<p>The text is typed in <a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/ewts.pdf" target="_blank">
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Extended Wylie</a>, but with the added
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value that optionally the user can choose to see it directly in the Tibetan script
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(<a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/tmw.html" target="_blank">using
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Tibetan Machine Web font now available for free</a>) as he types. We
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eventually plan to support other keyboard methods of entry as well. Here all the processing is also done on the server side, and the results
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are displayed interactively within the program's window. Again the user can choose
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to see the results in <a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/ewts.pdf" target="_blank">
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Extended Wylie</a> or in the Tibetan script. </p>
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<p>Even though the application runs as a stand-alone application in the
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desktop's user, connection to the Internet is still necessary to access the
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dictionary databases. Easy launching of the application can be done over the
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Internet using <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/">Java Web
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Start</a>, which comes with <a href="#Sun's Java Runtime Environment">
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Sun's Java Runtime Environment version 1.4</a> or higher. This is the
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recommended way to run the tool.</p>
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<p>The applet runs within a browser. The browser not only needs
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to support Java, but since the classes that handle the Tibetan font use <i>Swing</i>, <a href="#Sun's Java Runtime Environment">
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Sun's Java Runtime Environment version 1.4</a> or higher must additionally be installed.<br>
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</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The tool can also run off-line in:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><b>Desktop & laptop computers</b>
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supporting the Sun's <i>Java Runtime Environment</i> version 1.2 or higher;
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although <a href="#Sun's Java Runtime Environment">version 1.4</a> or higher is
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recommended. This is distributed as <i>DictionarySearchStandalone.jar</i>.</li>
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<li><b>Handheld devices</b> supporting <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/personaljava/">PersonalJava
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Application Environment</a> version 1.2a or higher. This is distributed as <i>
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DictionarySearchHandheld.jar</i>.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The classes designed to be run from the command-line are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>BinaryFileGenerator
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(included only in DictionarySearchStandalone.jar)</li>
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<li>AcipToWylie
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(included only in DictionarySearchStandalone.jar)</li>
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<li>WindowScannerFilter
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(included in both DictionarySearchStandalone.jar and
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DictionarySearchHandheld.jar)</li>
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<li>ConsoleScannerFilter
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(included in both DictionarySearchStandalone.jar and
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DictionarySearchHandheld.jar)</li>
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</ul>
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<p><i>Notes on Input:</i></p>
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<ul>
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<li>For the "punctuation marks", the tool assumes that
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<ul>
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<li>' ' (tsheg), '_' (space), <enter>, <tab>:
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function as syllable separators and may show up in between component word or phrases.</li>
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<li> '/' (shad), ';', '|', '!', ':', '[', ']', '^', '@', '#', '$', '%', '=', '<', '>',
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'(', ')', '{', '}', <i>blank line</i> (two enters in a row): may not show up in between
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component word or phrases (and hence is interpreted as marking the end of a
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component word or phrase). See <a href="http://orion.lib.virginia.edu/thdl/tools/ewts.pdf" target="_blank">
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Extended Wylie</a> documentation for the corresponding symbols in the
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Tibetan script.
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</li>
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<li>all other characters are part of the syllable<br>
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</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>To force the parser to "break up" a component word or phrase into
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its individual syllables, use any character of the second set in between the syllables. For
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example, if the entry is:
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<p><i>chos nyid</i></p>
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<p>or</p>
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<p><i>chos<br>
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nyid</i></p>
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<p>the parser will recognize it as a single word "<i>chos nyid</i>".
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But if the entry is:</p>
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<p><i>chos / nyid</i></p>
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<p>or</p>
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<p><i>chos</i></p>
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<p><i>nyid</i></p>
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<p>the parser will assume "chos" and "nyid" are independent,
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and will be looked up separately.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Author: Andrés Montano Pellegrini</p>
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<p>
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<h2>Related Documentation</h2>
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@see <a href="../text/package-summary.html">org.thdl.tib.text</a>
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@see <a href="../input/package-summary.html">org.thdl.tib.input</a>
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