The AKARA (អក្ខរា) project aims to give developers the power to easily add multi-language word suggestions support to their applications.

AkaraIOS offers this exciting feature to iOS developers.

• Word Suggestion

• Khmer
• English

• Next Word Suggestion for English
• Personalize Suggestions based on NGram
• Support for Other Languages. (Planing for Thai and Chinese)

• iOS 11.0+
• Xcode 10.0+
• Swift 4+

AkaraIOS is available through CocoaPods. To integrate AkaraIOS into your project, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

use_frameworks!
pod 'AkaraIOS'

let akara = Akara()
DispatchQueue.global(qos: .background).async {
    let sentence = "ឯងនេះមួយយប់ៗដេកខ្វល់រឿងអនាគតមិនដឹងធ្វើអីចិញ្ចឹមខ្លួនមួយនេះរស់"
    akara.suggest(sentence: sentence) { (suggestionType, suggestions, sequences, words) -> Void in
        DispatchQueue.main.async {
            print("input: \(sentence)")
            print("sequences: \(sequences)")
            print("words: \(words)")
            print("suggestions: \(suggestions.suffix(3))")
            print("suggestionType: \(suggestionType)")
            print("======")
        }
    }
}
        

Code contributions are welcome for this project and other AKARA related projects.

• Using simple space splitting and MLKit Language Identification to determine sequence language.

• Khmer: Deep Learning (LSTM) based on Joint Khmer Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Deep Learning from https://github.com/Socret360/joint-khmer-word-segmentation-and-pos-tagging.
• English: Simple space spliting.

• Khmer: Prefix Tree (a.k.a Trie) with dictionaries from https://github.com/sbbic/khmerlbdict.
• English: Prefix Tree (a.k.a Trie) with dictionary from https://github.com/dwyl/english-words.

• Khmer: BK Tree with dictionaries from https://github.com/sbbic/khmerlbdict.
• English: BK Tree with dictionaries from https://github.com/derekchuank/high-frequency-vocabulary.

• Khmer: Deep Learning (LSTM) trained by @ssokhavirith.
• English: N/A

AkaraIOS is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.