Multi-lingual Text-processing System for Southeast-Asian Studies

本研究项目的目的是开发一个能够处理老挝语、缅甸语、爪哇语和巴厘语的多语言文本处理系统，通过语料库方法分析这些语言的历史形式和字符组合模式。在这些分析的基础上，利用METAFONT程序开发了这些语言的文字字体。用Perl编写的预处理器被扩展为处理这些具有梵语或巴利语起源的词汇的语言，以便东南亚研究人员可以轻松地处理它们，并用TeX漂亮地打印出来。

The aim of this research project is to develop a multi-lingual text processing system which can handle Laotian, Burmese, Javanese and Balinese languages.Historical forms and combination patterns of characters of each of these languages are analyzed through corpus approach. On the basis of these analyses, fonts for the scripts of these languages are developed using METAFONT program. A preprocessor written in Perl is extended to treat these languages with Sanskrit or Pali originated vocabulary, so that researchers in Southeast Asian studies can process them easily and print beautifully by TEX.