sylbreak4all: Regular Expressions for Syllable Breaking of Nine Major Ethnic Languages of Myanmar
Ye Kyaw Thu, Hlaing Myat New, Hnin Aye Thant, Hay Man Htun, Htay Mon, May Myat Myat Khaing, Hsu Pan Oo, Pale Phyu, Nang Aeindray Kyaw, Thazin Myint Oo, Thazin Myint Oo, Thet Thet Zin, Thida Oo · 2021
Unlike many other western languages, the Myanmar language uses a syllabic writing system and no space between words. Syllable segmentation is the necessary preprocess for natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) conversion, machine translation, romanization, and so on. In this study, sylbreak4all, a syllable segmentation tool, was developed for nine major ethnic languages of Myanmar, and they are Burmese, Shan, Pa’o, Pwo Kayin, S’gaw Kayin, Rakhine, Myeik, Dawei, and Mon by using regular expression (RE) patterns.