Difference between revisions of "Uyghur"

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Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region spoken by the Uyghur people living in the region or neighboring countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. There are around 8 to 11 million speaking according to 2021 estimates.

Developed Resources

• Uyghur corpus repository
• Uyghur Keyboard
• Uyghur Grammar
• Uyghur Transducer and Evaluation
• Uyghur and English Main Wiki Page

External Resources

Computational

- Uyghur Keyboard:

• Uyghur Keyboard by Microsoft
• Uyghur Keyboard on Keyboard Layout

(These are copyrighted materials by Microsoft Corporation.Usage are allowed only for non-commercial use and with copyright notice attached. Terms and Conditions)

- Uyghur Spell and Grammar Checker:

• Uyghur Spell Checker by LibreOffice (This is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License: usage is allowed and attribution is required.)
• Uyghur Grammar Checker by LingvaNex (This requires payment and usage are available for personal use only. Terms and Conditions)

- Uyghur Alphabet and Scripts Converter:

• Latin to Uyghur Alphabet Converter by Temple University (There are no specific terms stated on the website, but since it is on the Temple University database, it may requires Temple University's permission for usage.)
• Uyghur-Multi-Script Converter by neouyghur (This is under Apache 2.0 License - Usage is allowed)

- Machine Translation Units:

- Machine translation APIs that supports Uyghur:

1. Microsoft Translator (Under Copyright by Microsoft Corporation and requires payment)
2. LingvaNex (Under Copyright by LingvaNex and requires payment)
3. ModernMT (Under Copyright License by ModernMT and requires payment)
4. Google Translate (Under Google's Terms and Conditions, we can use freely for non-commercial use.]

Dictionaries and Glossaries

• Concise Dictionary of Modern Uyghur Grammar
• An Uyghur-English Dictionary by Henry G. Schwarz, Western Washington University

(These are under copyright from their respective publishers. Usage for scholarly purpose may be protected under fair use.)

• Uyghur Dictionary by Lexigos

(This is website compiling resources on Uyghur Dictionary. The usage of the materials inside may varies.)

Grammatical Descriptions

• Uyghur language grammatical lessons for kids (This material is under copyright by the uygur.com)
• Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur (volume 1)(This under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 - We can use it.)
• Uyghur Grammar from Wikipedia (This is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License - usage are allowed with attribution attached)

Scientific Works

(All of these works are under their respective copyright. However, given that we use this for scholarly purposes, this could be under fair use.)

• These are the scientific papers on some of the features on Uyghur:
  • A Review of Morphological Analysis Methods on Uyghur Language
  • Morphological disambiguation rules for Uyghur language
  • Rule-Based Analysis of the Uyghur Nouns

• This research delved into some aspect of Uyghur's loan words: An Analysis of recent loans into the standard Uyghur Lexicon

• This dissertation by Dr. Connor Mayer could contain useful information: Issues in Uyghur backness harmony: Corpus, experimental, and computational studies

• Miscellaneous research related to Uyghur that may (or may not) prove to be useful:
  • Noisy Uyghur Text Normalization
  • Computational Comparison of the Uyghur and Turkish Grammar

• Some research on building Uyghur WordNet Dataset:
  • Building Contemporary Uyghur Grammatical Information Dictionary
  • Construction of an English-Uyghur WordNet Dataset

• This is not related per se, but it is an interesting research. Some useful information could be extracted:

Eye movements guided by morphological structure: Evidence from the Uighur language

Corpora

• Uygur.com, a website containing digital scans of books and texts written in Uyghur. Most of these are photocopied and might be hard to parse into a text file. This is under copyright by the website.
• Genesis 1, a translation of Genesis into Uyghur. This is allowed to use for non-commercial purposes. Terms and Conditions
• Radio Free Asia, a news website with articles in Uyghur. This is free to use as long as we credit the relevant sources. Terms and Conditions
• Quran, a pdf of the Quran in Uyghur, also photocopied so it may be hard to parse. Technically, on the website, it does states that the document are under copyright till 2013. However, as a religious text, it may be possible that it is in the public domain, or at least usable for non-commercial purposes.
• Apertium Resources [1], [2]