libpinyin playground

Note: this document is provided for interested users and developers to try libpinyin - library to deal with pinyin. This is just a preview, no official support yet.

1. How to prepare the data file for libpinyin.

1. create data sub-directory in libpinyin;

2. download pinyin-tables.tar.gz and interpolation.model.text.gz from github.com/epico;

3. extracts all textual format model files from pinyin-tables.tar.gz and interpolation.model.text.gz into data sub-directory;

4. enter "utils/storage/" sub-directory;

5. run "gen_binary_files" to generate binary tables.

6. run "./import_interpolation < ../../data/interpolation.model.text" to generate binary bi-gram model file.

2. Try the intelligent pinyin to characters conversion.

1. enter "tests/lookup/" sub-directory, then try "test_simple_lookup";

2. try other tools in tests sub-directory.