CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Added

• The characters_to_jyutping function can now take a list of strings as input with user-provided word segmentation.

Changed

• Updated versions of the dependencies: pylangacq >= 0.17.0 and wordseg >= 0.0.4.
• Restructured the repository to use top-level src/ and tests/ directories.

Deprecated

Removed

Fixed

• Fixed word segmentation so that spaces between English words in the user input are now honored as word boundaries.
• Fixed feature extraction in part-of-speech tagging.
• Fixed known issues in the rime-cantonese data.
• If parse_text is given an empty input or None, now an empty CHATReader instance is returned.
• If parse_text is given a non-empty list of utterances, then any empty utterance (e.g., None, "") will now be represented by an empty Utterance instance inside the resulting CHATReader output.

Security

[3.4.0] - 2021-12-28

Added

• Added the parse_text for analyzing Cantonese text data.
• Characters-to-Jyutping conversion: The characters_to_jyutping function now has the segmenter kwarg for customizing word segmentation.
• Added support for Python 3.10.
• Turned on Windows testing on CircleCI.
• Added pyproject.toml. Related to preferring setup.cfg for specifying build metadata and options.

Changed

• Characters-to-Jyutping conversion: For the characters_to_jyutping function, in case rime-cantonese and HKCanCor don't agree, rime-cantonese data (more accurate) is preferred.
• Updated the rime-cantonese data to the latest 2021.05.16 release, improving both characters-to-Jyutping conversion and word segmentation.
• Updated the PyLangAcq dependency to v0.16.0, allowing PyCantonese's CHATReader to use the new methods to_chat, to_strs, info, head, and tail.
• Switched to setup.cfg to fully specify build metadata and options, while keeping a minimal setup.py for backward compatibility. Related to the new pyproject.toml.

Removed

• Dropped support for Python 3.6.

Security

• Turned on safety and bandit checks at CircleCI builds.

[3.3.1] - 2021-05-14

Fixed

• Allowed PyLangAcq v0.14.* for real.

[3.3.0] - 2021-05-14

Changed

• Allowed PyLangAcq v0.14.*, thereby adding the new features of the filter method to CHATReader and optional parallelization for CHAT data processing.

Fixed

• Fixed the search method of CHATReader when by_tokens is False.

[3.2.4] - 2021-05-07

Fixed

• Fixed the previously inoperational methods append, append_left, extend, and extend_left of the class CHATReader through the upstream PyLangAcq package.
• Retrained the part-of-speech tagger, after the minor character fix from v3.2.3.
• Raised NotImplementedError for the method ipsyn of CHATReader, since the upstream method works only for English.

[3.2.3] - 2021-04-12

Fixed

• Fixed character issues in the built-in HKCanCor data: 𥄫

[3.2.2] - 2021-03-23

Fixed

• Fixed a CHAT parsing issue when correction and repetition are combined, by bumping the pylangacq dependency from v0.13.0 to v0.13.1.

[3.2.1] - 2021-03-21

Fixed

• Fixed character issues in the built-in HKCanCor data: 𠮩𠹌, 𠻗

[3.2.0] - 2021-03-20

Note: The underlying CHAT parser, the PyLangAcq package, has been bumped to v0.13.0. All of the updates of PyLangAcq's CHAT reader apply to this PyCantonese release as well. The details are in PyLangAcq's changelog for v0.13.0. The changelog entries below only document updates specific to PyCantonese.

Added

• Defined the Jyutping class to better represent parsed Jyutping romanization.

Changed

• Bumped the PyLangAcq dependency to v0.13.0.
• The function parse_jyutping now returns a list of Jyutping objects, rather than tuples of strings.

Deprecated

• The following methods in the CHATReader class have been deprecated:

  • character_sents (use characters with by_utterances=True instead)
  • jyutping_sents (use jyutping with by_utterances=True instead)

• The following arguments of the search method of CHATReader have been deprecated:

  • sent_range (use utterance_range instead)
  • tagged (use by_tokens instead)
  • sents (use by_utterances instead)

Fixed

• Fixed the character issues in the built-in HKCanCor data: 𠺢, 𠺝, 𡁜, 𧕴, 𥊙, 𡃓, 𠴕, 𡀔

[3.1.1] - 2021-03-18

Fixed

• Pinned pylangacq at 0.12.0 (the new 0.13.0 has breaking changes).

[3.1.0] - 2021-02-21

Added

• Part-of-speech tagging:
  • Added the function pos_tag that takes a segmented sentence or phrase and returns its part-of-speech tags.
  • Added the function hkcancor_to_ud that maps a part-of-speech tag from the original HKCanCor annotated data to one of the tags from the Universal Dependencies v2 tagset.
• Word segmentation:
  • Improved segmentation quality by revising the underlying wordlist data.
• The test suite now covers code snippets in both the docstrings and .rst doc files.

Fixed

• Fixed the issue of not opening text files with UTF-8 encoding (a possible issue on Windows).
• jyutping_to_yale and parse_jyutping now return a null value (rather than raise an error) when the input is null.
• The word segmentation function segment now strips all whitespace from the input unsegmented string before segmenting it.

[3.0.0] - 2020-10-25

Added

• Word segmentation:
  • Segmentation is customizable for the following:
    • Maximum word length
    • A user-supplied list of words to allow as words
    • A user-supplied list of words to disallow as words
  • The default segmentation model has been improved with the rime-cantonese data (CC BY 4.0 license).
• Characters-to-Jyutping conversion:
  • The conversion returns results in a word-segmented form.
  • The conversion model has been improved with the rime-cantonese data (CC BY 4.0 license).
• Added the following functions; they are equivalent to their (now deprecated) x2y counterparts:
  • characters_to_jyutping
  • jyutping_to_tipa
  • jyutping_to_yale
• Added support for Python 3.9.

Changed

API-breaking Changes

• jyutping_to_yale: The default value of the keyword argument as_list has been changed from False to True, so that this function is now more in line with the other "jyutping_to_X" functions for returning a list.
• characters_to_jyutping: The returned valued is now a list of segmented words, where each is a 2-tuple of (Cantonese characters, Jyutping). Previously, it was a list of Jyutping strings for the individual Cantonese characters.

Non-API-breaking Changes

• Switched documentation to the readthedocs theme and numpydoc docstring style.
• Improved CircleCI builds with orbs.

Deprecated

• The following x2y functions have been deprecated in favor of their equivalents named in the form of x_to_y.
  • characters2jyutping
  • jyutping2tipa
  • jyutping2yale

Security

• Turned on HTTPS for the pycantonese.org domain.

[2.4.1] - 2020-10-10

Fixed

• Switched to the wordseg dependency to a PyPI source instead of a GitHub direct link.

[2.4.0] - 2020-10-10

Added

• Added the characters2jyutping() function for converting Cantonese characters to Jyutping romanization.
• Added the segment() function for word segmentation.

[2.3.0] - 2020-07-24

Added

• Added support for Python 3.7 and 3.8.

Removed

• Dropped support for Python 3.4 and 3.5 (supporting 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 now).

[2.2.0] - 2018-06-30

Added

• 104 stop words.

[2.1.0] - 2018-06-11

Added

• Exposed the exclude parameter in various reader methods for excluding specific participants. This parameter was implemented at pylangacq v0.10.0.

Fixed

• Allowed "n" to be a syllabic nasal.
• Fixed corpus reader not picking up the characters.

[2.0.0] - 2016-02-06

• PyCantonese now requires Python 3.4 or above.
• Adopted the CHAT corpus format, piggybacking on PyLangAcq
• Converted HKCanCor into the CHAT format
• Switched to transparent function names (cf. issue #10): parse_jyutping(), jyutping2yale(), jyutping2tipa()
• Bug fixes: issues #6, #7, #8 #9

[1.0] - 2015-09-06

• Fixed the Jyutping-Yale conversion issue with "yu"
• Added number_of_words() and number_of_characters() for corpus access
• Forced all part-of-speech tags (both in searches and internal to corpus objects) in caps, in line with the NLTK convention

[1.0dev] - 2015-09-02

• Overall code restructuring
• Only Python 3.x is supported from this point onwards
• Used generators instead of lists for corpus access methods
• Added the part-of-speech search criterion
• Added Jyutping-to-Yale conversion
• Added Jyutping-to-TIPA conversion
• Disabled the function for reading a custom corpus dataset (it will come back)

[0.2.1] - 2015-01-25

• Fixed corpus access path issues

[0.2] - 2015-01-22

• The Hong Kong Cantonese Corpus is included in the package.
• A general-purpose search() function is defined, replacing the element-specific search functions from version 0.1.

[0.1] - 2014-12-17

• Basic functions available, including...
• Parsing Jyutping romanization
• Reading a tagged corpus data folder
• Searching by a given element (onset/initial, nucleus, coda, final, character)
• Searching by a character plus a range