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PyCantonese: Cantonese Linguistics and NLP in Python
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)
Abstract
This paper introduces PyCantonese, an open-source Python library for Cantonese linguistics and natural language processing. After the library design, implementation, corpus data format, and key datasets included are introduced, the paper provides an overview of the currently implemented functionality: stop words, handling Jyutping romanization, word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, and parsing Cantonese text.