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 40 southeast asian nlp tools tracked. 3 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is PyThaiNLP/attacut at 55/100 with 94 stars and 4,237 monthly downloads.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	PyThaiNLP/attacut A Fast and Accurate Neural Thai Word Segmenter	55	Established	94	Python
2	UlugbekSalaev/UzTransliterator UzTransliterator \| State-of-the-art machine transliteration tool for Uzbek language	54	Established	13	Python
3	VietHoang1512/khmer-nltk Khmer language processing toolkit	50	Established	81	Python
4	seanghay/KhmerOCR A Fast Khmer Optical Character Recognition (KhmerOCR)	43	Emerging	48	C++
5	seanghay/khmernormalizer A missing toolkit for Khmer Natural Language Processing.	41	Emerging	11	Python
6	ionite34/Aquila-Resolve Augmented Recurrent Neural Grapheme-to-Phoneme conversion with Inflectional...	41	Emerging	7	Python
7	seanghay/khmerphonemizer A Free, Standalone and Open-Source Khmer Grapheme-to-Phonemes.	38	Emerging	3	Python
8	Sovichea/khmer_segmenter A zero-dependency, high-performance Khmer word segmenter using the Viterbi...	37	Emerging	34	Python
9	mdoumbouya/detransliterator detransliteration library and tools	36	Emerging	2	Python
10	AI4Bharat/IndicNLP-Transliteration Codebase for Indic-Transliteration using Seq2Seq RNN. For latest repo with...	35	Emerging	59	Python
11	eimg/myanmar-text-breaker Syllable and word, breaker/boundary-segmentation for Myanmar text in JavaScript	33	Emerging	34	JavaScript
12	koomri/text-segmentation Implementation of the paper: Text Segmentation as a Supervised Learning Task	33	Emerging	265	Python
13	ionite34/h2p-parser Heteronym to Phoneme Parser	30	Emerging	19	Python
14	YerevaNN/translit-rnn Automatic transliteration with LSTM	29	Experimental	93	Python
15	MinSiThu/Rakhine-Proverbs-Dataset Proverbs in Rakhine/Arakan Language	27	Experimental	6	—
16	Khmer-NLP/khmer-nlp Khmer Natural Language Processing (KHNLP)	27	Experimental	4	Python
17	Koziev/StressModel Neural model for prediction of stress position in Russian words	27	Experimental	13	Python
18	josephjojoe/syllabification GRU-based neural network with Inception modules and an optional Linear Chain...	26	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
19	khmerlang/elasticsearch-analysis-khmerlang Khmer Analysis Plugin for Elasticsearch	25	Experimental	20	Java
20	swanhtet1992/ReSegment Burmese (Myanmar) syllable level segmentation with regex.	25	Experimental	27	Java
21	netra-ai-lab/Khmer-OCR-CNN-Transformer A Squeeze-and-Excitation Transformer Network for Khmer Optical Character Recognition	25	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
22	SaPhyoThuHtet/myanmar-nlp-tool Natural Language Processing Tool	24	Experimental	38	Python
23	seanghay/khmer-neural-segmenter Khmer Neural Segmenter	24	Experimental	12	C
24	Koziev/transcriber Model to convert text to phonetic transcription and vice versa	24	Experimental	3	Python
25	sagorbrur/itranslit transliteration for indic language	24	Experimental	4	Python
26	chanmratekoko/Awesome-Myanmar-Wordlists-Dictionary-Collection Myanmar (Burmese) Wordlists Dictionary Collection for word segmentation,...	23	Experimental	34	—
27	NDarayut/english-khmer-transliteration An English–Khmer transliteration system built on an Attention-Based...	22	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
28	sagorbrur/bntranslit Bangla Transliteration Package	22	Experimental	8	Python
29	alvations/myth Myanmar and Thai Language Resources	19	Experimental	10	Shell
30	Michael95-m/myanmar_names Burmese name conversion with rule-based method (Burmese to English and...	16	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
31	papamusa/Three-word-sentences 🔤 Master three-word sentences for clear English communication through simple...	14	Experimental	—	—
32	thomas-chauvet/names_transliteration Neural Machine Translation (NMT) applied to transliterate names in arabic...	14	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
33	dmitry-rvn/ru-svo-triplets Subject-verb-object triplets extraction for russian language.	14	Experimental	1	Python
34	ye-kyaw-thu/MSL4Emergency Myanmar Sign Language Corpus for Emergency Domain	13	Experimental	11	—
35	Socret360/joint-khmer-word-segmentation-and-pos-tagging A Keras implementation of a deep learning network to simultaneously perform...	13	Experimental	11	Python
36	shayneobrien/text-segmentation Neural and nonneural text segmentation methods.	13	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
37	suralmasha/RuTranscript Russian phonetical transcription	12	Experimental	11	Python
38	SaPhyoThuHtet/myanmar-part-of-speech-tagging-based-on-machine-translation POS Tagging Based on Machine Translation (UTYCC Class Final Project)	11	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
39	ThuraAung1601/myTypo myTypo : Typographic Error Simulator for Myanmar Language	10	Experimental	1	Python
40	eemberda/Cebuano-Syllable-Decoder Accepts a Cebuano word and breaks it down into syllables	10	Experimental	1	Python

Comparisons in this category

khmer-nltk and khmer-nlp (50 vs 27)