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01:48
October 14, 2011
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Kind Language Learners
I hope this message finds you well and happy.
In Thai, each character is not a word, but each word is not separated by a space as in Romance languages.
Do you know of any software that can automatically put a space between the words in a Thai sentence?
I saw in the Japanese forum a similar question and there would seem to be software for this for Japanese.
Kind Regards
13:03
October 14, 2011
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I found one simple (and free) solution, after finding and trying three programs that are supposed to do it and that didn't work, for me.
Go to: http://www.thai-language.com/default.aspx
Paste in your text.
Under the area where you paste in your text, there are two buttons and a drop down list. Select "simple" in the drop down list.
Click the "Go" button.
The sentence/s will appear below the Go button with words separated.
Copy and "paste special".
Done!
02:29
October 14, 2011
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I've found an offline solution:
Download and intstall the free program:
http://ling.arts.chula.ac.th/wordseg/
change system locale (Windows Vista):
Goto Control Panel
click Region and Language
select Administrative tab
click Change system locale
choose Thai
restart the windows
After restart and pasting text and running the converstion (/Run/Word segmentation – or Ctrl W):
cut and paste the text to MS Word and (without inverted commas) search and replace:
"<p>" for "^p"
"<w>" for " " (that is a space)
" <s>" for " ." (space and a full stop) Sorry that should be " <s>" for ". " (full stop and space)
enjoy!
04:27
October 10, 2011
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I am sure that is good and all, but you should not depend on that forever. They do use spacing and there is a set of rules for it. Eventually you will want to know what those rules are. you need to eventually practice reading the language without individual spacing. Anyway good luck.
05:26
October 14, 2011
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I'm sure no one intends to depend on this forever and before I started this topic, I could already distinguish the words in a Thai sentence. Why the negative assumptions? I don't find your comments very supportive or encouraging.
I posted this only because the program this forum is all about REQUIRES the words be spaced! So I have given a solution.
05:27
October 14, 2011
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Why not just post the rules you talk about. That certainly would be more constructive!
06:23
October 10, 2011
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Dhammadarsa said:
Why not just post the rules you talk about. That certainly would be more constructive!
I apologize if I came off negative and you are right here are the rules for spacing Thai, according to my knowledge. There may be more since I have never studied Thai in a classroom setting. Just lived there and did self study. here you go:
1. At the end of a phrase or sentence. Essentially when you start a new idea
2. When you list things you put a phrase inbetween each phrase or word in the list
3. After ว่า when used with words like พูด or เห็น or กล่าว….so on.
Thats my knowlege. Sorry again if I came off condesending.
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