GlotScript: A Resource and Tool for Low Resource Writing System Identification

arXiv:2309.13320v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We present GlotScript, an open resource and tool for low resource writing system identification. GlotScript-R is a resource that provides the attested writing systems for more than 7,000 languages. It is compiled by aggregating information from existing writing system resources. GlotScript-T is a writing system identification tool that covers all 161 Unicode 15.0 scripts. For an input text, it returns its script distribution where scripts are identified by ISO 15924 codes. We also present two …

arxiv cs.cl identification low tool type writing