| cff-version: 1.2.0 |
| title: "uyghur-normalizer: 2009 imla orthographic and de-calquing normalization for Uyghur" |
| message: "If you use this software or its map data, please cite it." |
| type: software |
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| authors: |
| - name: UyghurReferenceTexts |
| website: "https://github.com/UyghurReferenceTexts" |
| repository-code: "https://github.com/UyghurReferenceTexts/uyghur-normalizer" |
| abstract: >- |
| A dependency-free normalizer for Uyghur text in the Arabic script. Applies |
| three ordered passes: terminology calqued from Chinese, pre-2009 spellings, |
| and loanword shape under the 2009 orthographic reform. An optional pass |
| corrects common misuses of words, from the corrections marked in the |
| 6-volume Uyghur edebiy tilining izahliq lughiti (1990-1999). Suffixes are |
| re-derived against the replacement with vowel harmony, voicing assimilation |
| and raising, and the tool declines rather than guesses where the derivation |
| is not safe. Includes the map data, arbitrated word by word against the 2009 |
| Hazirqi zaman Uyghur edebiy tilining imla lughiti dictionary of the Milletler |
| Til-Yeziq Komiteti and 2011 Hazirqi zaman Uyghur tilining izahliq lughiti |
| (qisqartilmisi), and checked against every headword of both, with |
| hand-verified headwords required to pass unchanged. Every rule is traceable |
| to the dictionary row and scan image that attest it. |
| keywords: |
| - Uyghur |
| - orthography |
| - imla |
| - text normalization |
| - low-resource languages |
| - machine translation |
| - linguistics |
| license: MIT |
| license-url: "https://github.com/UyghurReferenceTexts/uyghur-normalizer/blob/main/LICENSE" |
| doi: "10.5281/zenodo.22000836" |
| version: 2.0.1 |
| date-released: "2026-10-17" |
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