Southeast Asian NLP Tools

NLP tools and resources specifically for Southeast Asian languages (Khmer, Burmese, Myanmar, Thai, Rakhine). Includes text segmentation, transliteration, OCR, and language-specific preprocessing. Does NOT include general multilingual NLP tools, datasets for non-Southeast Asian languages, or language-agnostic NLP frameworks.

There are 45 southeast asian nlp tools tracked. 3 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is VietHoang1512/khmer-nltk at 57/100 with 81 stars.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	VietHoang1512/khmer-nltk Khmer language processing toolkit	57	Established	81	Python
2	PyThaiNLP/attacut A Fast and Accurate Neural Thai Word Segmenter	54	Established	94	Python
3	UlugbekSalaev/UzTransliterator UzTransliterator \| State-of-the-art machine transliteration tool for Uzbek language	50	Established	13	Python
4	seanghay/KhmerOCR A Fast Khmer Optical Character Recognition (KhmerOCR)	47	Emerging	48	C++
5	seanghay/khmerphonemizer A Free, Standalone and Open-Source Khmer Grapheme-to-Phonemes.	45	Emerging	3	Python
6	ionite34/Aquila-Resolve Augmented Recurrent Neural Grapheme-to-Phoneme conversion with Inflectional...	44	Emerging	7	Python
7	seanghay/khmernormalizer A missing toolkit for Khmer Natural Language Processing.	43	Emerging	11	Python
8	AI4Bharat/IndicNLP-Transliteration Codebase for Indic-Transliteration using Seq2Seq RNN. For latest repo with...	42	Emerging	59	Python
9	koomri/text-segmentation Implementation of the paper: Text Segmentation as a Supervised Learning Task	40	Emerging	265	Python
10	mdoumbouya/detransliterator detransliteration library and tools	40	Emerging	2	Python
11	eimg/myanmar-text-breaker Syllable and word, breaker/boundary-segmentation for Myanmar text in JavaScript	40	Emerging	34	JavaScript
12	Sovichea/khmer_segmenter A zero-dependency, high-performance Khmer word segmenter using the Viterbi...	37	Emerging	34	Python
13	ionite34/h2p-parser Heteronym to Phoneme Parser	37	Emerging	19	Python
14	YerevaNN/translit-rnn Automatic transliteration with LSTM	36	Emerging	93	Python
15	Khmer-NLP/khmer-nlp Khmer Natural Language Processing (KHNLP)	34	Emerging	4	Python
16	Koziev/StressModel Neural model for prediction of stress position in Russian words	34	Emerging	13	Python
17	MinSiThu/Rakhine-Proverbs-Dataset Proverbs in Rakhine/Arakan Language	34	Emerging	6	—
18	josephjojoe/syllabification GRU-based neural network with Inception modules and an optional Linear Chain...	33	Emerging	5	Jupyter Notebook
19	swanhtet1992/ReSegment Burmese (Myanmar) syllable level segmentation with regex.	32	Emerging	27	Java
20	khmerlang/elasticsearch-analysis-khmerlang Khmer Analysis Plugin for Elasticsearch	32	Emerging	20	Java
21	SaPhyoThuHtet/myanmar-nlp-tool Natural Language Processing Tool	31	Emerging	38	Python
22	Koziev/transcriber Model to convert text to phonetic transcription and vice versa	31	Emerging	3	Python
23	chanmratekoko/Awesome-Myanmar-Wordlists-Dictionary-Collection Myanmar (Burmese) Wordlists Dictionary Collection for word segmentation,...	30	Emerging	34	—
24	netra-ai-lab/Khmer-OCR-CNN-Transformer A Squeeze-and-Excitation Transformer Network for Khmer Optical Character Recognition	29	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
25	sagorbrur/bntranslit Bangla Transliteration Package	29	Experimental	8	Python
26	NDarayut/english-khmer-transliteration An English–Khmer transliteration system built on an Attention-Based...	28	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
27	sagorbrur/itranslit transliteration for indic language	28	Experimental	4	Python
28	seanghay/khmer-neural-segmenter Khmer Neural Segmenter	26	Experimental	12	C
29	alvations/myth Myanmar and Thai Language Resources	26	Experimental	10	Shell
30	Michael95-m/myanmar_names Burmese name conversion with rule-based method (Burmese to English and...	23	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
31	thomas-chauvet/names_transliteration Neural Machine Translation (NMT) applied to transliterate names in arabic...	21	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
32	dmitry-rvn/ru-svo-triplets Subject-verb-object triplets extraction for russian language.	21	Experimental	1	Python
33	Socret360/joint-khmer-word-segmentation-and-pos-tagging A Keras implementation of a deep learning network to simultaneously perform...	20	Experimental	11	Python
34	ye-kyaw-thu/MSL4Emergency Myanmar Sign Language Corpus for Emergency Domain	20	Experimental	11	—
35	shayneobrien/text-segmentation Neural and nonneural text segmentation methods.	20	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
36	suralmasha/RuTranscript Russian phonetical transcription	19	Experimental	11	Python
37	SaPhyoThuHtet/myanmar-part-of-speech-tagging-based-on-machine-translation POS Tagging Based on Machine Translation (UTYCC Class Final Project)	18	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
38	eemberda/Cebuano-Syllable-Decoder Accepts a Cebuano word and breaks it down into syllables	17	Experimental	1	Python
39	ThuraAung1601/myTypo myTypo : Typographic Error Simulator for Myanmar Language	17	Experimental	1	Python
40	papamusa/Three-word-sentences 🔤 Master three-word sentences for clear English communication through simple...	14	Experimental	—	—
41	MinSiThu/Myanmar-Agriculture-1K Agriculture Dataset in Burmese Language	12	Experimental	7	—
42	Anas1108/Transliteration-RomantoUrdu-And-ViceVersa This project aims to develop a program that can perform transliteration...	12	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
43	juletx/writing-systems Comparing Writing Systems with Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme and...	11	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
44	Michael95-m/mya-sent-break Sentence segmentation for burmese language by rule-based method	10	Experimental	2	Python
45	ljvmiranda921/ud-tagalog-spacy Training a POS Tagger and Dependency Parser for a Low-Resource Language (Tagalog)	10	Experimental	2	Python

Comparisons in this category

khmer-nltk and khmer-nlp (57 vs 34)