Greek Utilities
A JavaScript library for Greek language with utilities such as replacement of accented and other diacritics characters, conversion from Greek to phonetic, transliterated or greeklish Latin and more, like Greek stopwords removal.
Installation
npm install --save greek-utils
Usage
Node.js
var greekUtils = ;
- sanitizeDiacritics()
Convert all diacritics symbols to their simple equivalent
Example 1 (modern Greek):
var sanitized = greekUtils;console; //Αρνακι ασπρο και παχυ
Example 2 (ancient Greek):
var sanitized = greekUtils;console; //Εξ ου και δηλον οτι ουδεμια των ηθικων αρετων φυσει ημιν εγγινεται
- toGreek()
Convert a Latin characters text to its modern Greek equivalent
Example:
var greek = greekUtils;console; //καλημερα, πως ειστε;
- toGreeklish()
Convert a modern Greek characters text to its greeklish equivalent
Example:
var greeklish = greekUtils;console; //Euhxo: auto pou akougetai wraia.
- toPhoneticLatin()
Convert a modern Greek characters text to its phonetically equivalent Latin (sound mapping).
Example:
var phoneticLatin = greekUtils;console; //Évikho: aftó pou akoúyete oréa.
- toTransliteratedLatin()
Convert a modern Greek characters text to its transliterated equivalent Latin (letter mapping).
Example:
var transliteratedLatin = greekUtils;console; //Eúēkho: autó pou akoúgetai ōraía.
Ignoring characters
All of the above functions accept an optional second parameter as a string with characters you don't wish to be converted.
Example:
var greeklish = greekUtils;console; //kalhmεra, pws εistε?
- removeStopWords()
Remove all stop words from the given text, for both ancient and modern Greek. Also accepts an optional flag, which when set to true
will remove the multiple whitespaces that probably have occurred in the text after removing the stop words.
Note: The default value for that flag is false
, so multiple whitespaces are expected to be returned.
Examples:
-
Without stripping the extra white spaces:
var withoutStopwordsPreservedWhitespace = greekUtils;console; //μια απλή πρόταση, δείχνει αφαίρεση όλων stopwords αρχαίας νέας Ελληνικής γλώσσας επιστρέφει καθαρό κείμενο. -
With stripping the extra white spaces:
var withoutStopwordsPreservedWhitespace = greekUtils;console; //μια απλή πρόταση, δείχνει αφαίρεση όλων stopwords αρχαίας νέας Ελληνικής γλώσσας επιστρέφει καθαρό κείμενο.