This paper describes an alternative formalism for Thai syntax parsing based on a lexicalized tree adjoining grammar (LTAG). We first briefly present some formal background concerning LTAG, which is necessary for an understanding of LTAG and its application to Thai. Specifically, we address several issues regarding difficulties in parsing Thai sentences and how to resolve these issues using LTAG...

Paraphrase generation in any language has gained much attention and importance in the study of Natural Language Processing. Therefore, the focus of this paper is on Thai language paraphrase generation for the sentence level. Six sentence paraphrasing techniques for Thai are proposed and illustratively explained. In addition, the Thai–sentence Paraphrase Generation (TPG) system is designed using...

Smartphones have become vital devices in the current onthe-go Thai culture. Typically, virtual keyboards serve as tools for text input on smartphones. Due to the limited screen area and the large number of Thai characters, the size of each button on the keyboard is quite small. This leads to character mistyping and low typing speed. In this paper, we present a typical framework of a Thai Input ...

OBJECTIVE To study the basic eyelid and orbital measurement in the four main ethnic groups of southern Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD The basic eyelid and orbital surface anatomy of 101 normal subjects aged 20-40 years old were measured in the four ethnic groups of which the majority of people in southern Thailand belong to: Thai, Chinese, Thai-Malay, and Thai-Chinese. RESULTS Of the 101 sub...

Men's health awareness, including the research and study of quality of life, sexual desires and risk factors, has increased worldwide. In Thailand, this advancement is made possible by cooperation, research and sponsorship from the local Thai community. This article aims to illustrate the sexual attitudes of Thai people, to determine the degree of erectile dysfunction (ED) and to investigate ho...

BACKGROUND Children with delayed speech and language development are at considerable risk for later language impairment, social and behavioural problems, and illiteracy. Early diagnosis is needed for intervention planning and prevention. However, a speech and language test for Thai children has not been available. AIMS To establish a Thai Speech and Language Test for Thai children between zer...

Self-efficacy is an important psychosocial factor that has been reported in many studies to be a mediator between health, behavior, and the environment. However, a valid and reliable measure of self-efficacy in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients has not yet been developed in the Thai language. The aims of this study were to first translate the Cardiac SelfEfficacy Questionnaire (CSEQ) into ...

With the rapidly increasing number of Thai online customer reviews available in social media and websites, sentiment analysis technique, also called opinion mining, has become an important task in the past few years. This technique aims to analyze people’s emotions, opinion, attitudes and sentiments. The classical approaches for opinion mining represents the reviews as bag-of-words as many word...

Word segmentation is an important task in natural language processing, especially for languages without word boundaries, such as Thai language. Many Thai word segmentation programs have been developed. Researchers and developers in Thai documents usually spend a tremendous amount of time in studying and trying different Thai word segmentation programs. This paper presents the performance of six...

This document describes the approach and techniques used in software that has been developed to generate phonemes from written Thai. This software has been used to generate the phonetic transcription of Thai words in a Thai-Dutch dictionary. The most important part of this software is a lexical analyzer based on regular expressions for matching patterns in the Thai writing system. Because most ...