Nayiri Institute for Armenian Language Computing
This computing Infrastructure consists of the following foundational data, algorithms, and software systems:
- comprehensive vocabulary and lexicon of the Armenian language
- morphological analyzers and stemmers
- digitized dictionaries (monolingual and bilingual)
- search technology and search engine
- linguistic database and annotated text corpus.
The software Applications provided include spellcheckers for various desktop platforms (HySpell), and Armenian virtual keyboards with built-in spellcheckers for mobile devices (Nayiriboard for iOS and Nayiriboard for Android).
Spellchecker
If you misspell a word, most of the time Nayiri will find the word you really meant, or at least make a few suggestions. For example, if you search թրջուն, Nayiri will suggest թռչուն.
Also, when applicable, Nayiri will list homonyms of the word you entered. For example, if you look up դար, Nayiri lists թառ as well as տար and տառ (close homonyms).
Stemmer
Nayiri's built-in stemmer accepts inflected forms of a word. For example, if you search for the noun կատուներուս ("to my cats"), Nayiri finds կատու, the canonical form of the word. Also, if you search for the verb կարդացինք ("we read", past perfect tense), Nayiri finds կարդալ ("to read").
Virtual Armenian keyboard
A virtual Armenian keyboard makes it easy to type in Armenian without any configuration of your operating system (which can be complicated!).
The virtual keyboard offers you the choice of using your preferred Armenian keyboard layout:
Armenian Western
Armenian Eastern
Armenian Phonetic (default)
Armenian Typewriter
The first two are nearly identical to the keyboard layouts shipped with Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux; the latter two ship with the Armenian NLS package.
