Introduction

A collection of scala and java classes for some basic character level processing for the Sanskrit and other Indic (kannada, telugu, etc..) languages, contributed by the open source sanskrit-coders projects and friends. Some notable facilities:

Transliterate text from one script or encoding scheme to another.

Users

Library users

Maven repository here .
Last update : 2017-05-??

Built output

Final jar files
- out/*.jar [all modules in intellij project]
- target/*.jar [includes sources and javadocs in separate jars. indic-transliteration module only]
Classes
- out/production/*/ [Modules other than indic-transliteration.]
- target/ [sanskritnlp module output.]

Some known users

stardict-sanskrit and sister stardict-.* projects.

Libraries in other languages

For python: indic-transliteration pip .
For Java / Scala: indic-transliteration maven.
For JS:
- sanscript .
- salita - limited to a few Roman transliterations and devanAgarI.
PHP: Dicrunch and its use by akSharamukhA .

Contributors

Deployment

SBT:

Use sbt command release to publish to maven repos.
Use sbt command test and testOnly to run tests.
You should be able to use it roughly immediately; and after many hours you should see at maven repo listings here.

Building a jar.

Simplest way is to set up a build artifact in intellij IDea.

Technical choices

Scala

One can write much more concise code (1/4th to 1/3rd relative to Java and 3/4ths to 5/6ths relative to Python, according to this )
- For example, the ease with which one can iterate in scala using higher order functions (the maps, filters and zips above) available with scala's excellent collections library.
while not sacrificing the ability to use java libraries, and readability/ speed of java.
It is increasing in popularity relative to competitors : scala vs clojure ( Google trends ), scala vs julia ( Google trends ).
Here is a good series of blog posts which provide an introduction to Scala.

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