Liam Doherty, Ph.D.

Sessional Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

@dohliam

• Multilingualism
• Cantonese
• Chinese grammar
• Digital Literacy
• Language Socialization
• Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
• Chinese as an Additional Language (CAL) Education
• Corpus Linguistics
• Translation
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Free & Open Source Software (FOSS)

Projects list

An overview of projects by @dohliam:

• Personal projects
• Corpora
• IPA tools
• Transliteration & conversion
• Markup
• Tiny tools
• 開放詞典
• opengrammar
• open-dsl-dict
• global-asp
  • Images
  • Audio
  • Tools
  • Global Storybooks
  • Guidelines
• open-dict-data
• UBC FOSS
• Teaching
• Other
• FOSS project contributions

Personal projects

Main project page: dohliam.github.io

• bookletizer - Create foldable booklets from any PDF
• cast-playlist - Cast local video playlists to a Chromecast
• ccmixter-download - A tool for batch downloading and streaming songs from ccMixter
• console-image-browser (cib) - An interactive wrapper for viewing images in the terminal
• dropin-minimal-css - Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks
• dsl-tools - Tools for creating DSL-format dictionaries
• ecards - Open Ecard Generator - Serverless, non-expiring electronic greeting cards
• elegant-circles - Elegant Themes Circle Icons in SVG format
• forvocl - Play, list, and save Forvo pronunciations from the command-line
• gdcl - Command-line interface for Goldendict dictionaries
• groovebasin-ssh - Bash script to stream music over SSH
• jekyll-offline - Turn any Jekyll site into an offline application with relative links
• libreoffice-impress-templates - Freely-licensed LibreOffice Impress templates
• openjs1k - A collection of freely-licensed js1k entries
• video-averaging - Extract frames from videos and use them to create composite average images
• yub - yub.js - web command-line
• zip-audio - Play arbitrary audio files from within a compressed folder

Cantonese

• yylc-js - Cantonese Measure Word Database Lookup
• pingyam-js - Cantonese Romanization Converter
• pingyam-rb - Cantonese romanization converter in Ruby
• cats-yue - Cantonese version of Cats of Jasnah, a game for learning categories and logic

Corpora

• aligned-corpus-search - Simple aligned corpus search tool
• corpus-tools - A collection of scripts for working with multilingual text corpora
• ebook corpus - A parser and extractor for electronic books
• hawaiian-corpus - Data from a corpus of written Hawaiian
• more-stoplists - Stoplists for African languages generated from the ASP corpus

IPA tools

Tools and resources for working with IPA:

• cmu-ipa - Scripts for converting CMU Sphinx dictionaries to IPA
• ipa-dict - Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA
• ipa-lookup - Search for pronuncations in different languages
• ipa-transcriber - Auto-transcribe arbitrary languages into phonemic IPA
• open-dsl-dict/ipa-dict-dsl - IPA Pronunciation Dictionaries in DSL format
• qc-ipa - Experimental conversion of French IPA to Québécois
• xsampa - X-SAMPA to IPA converter

Transliteration & conversion

• amharic-transliteration - A JavaScript-based converter for transliterating Amharic text into Latin characters
• cree-transliteration - A JavaScript-based converter for transliterating Cree text between syllabics and roman orthography
• pingyam-js - Cantonese Romanization Converter
• pingyam-rb - Cantonese romanization converter in Ruby
• pinyin-rb - Mandarin Chinese transcription conversion in Ruby
• rubify - Generator for ruby text annotations
• xsampa - X-SAMPA to IPA converter

Markup

• asciidoctor-workflow - Quick prototyping script for creating rich html and pdfs from Asciidoctor documents
• tocdown - A table of contents generator for Markdown
• workflow - Quick prototyping script for creating rich html and pdfs from Markdown documents
• markdoctor - A simple online Markdown to Asciidoctor converter
• asciidoc-kate - AsciiDoc/AsciiDoctor syntax highlighting plugin for Kate editor/KatePart
• criticmarkup-kate - CriticMarkup syntax highlighting plugin for Kate editor/KatePart
• html table to text - Extract and convert HTML tables to plain text formats
• pmwiki-kate - PmWiki markup syntax highlighter for Kate editor/KatePart
• multilingual-text-highlighting - Multilingual syntax highlighting for prose

Tiny tools

Main project page: dohliam.github.io/tiny_tools

• compare-columns - Quickly compare data across separate columns
• compare-prices - Compare prices - Shopping helper
• currency - Currency Conversion - Generate lists of common unit conversions in a variety of currencies
• elements-of-a-in-b - Find matching strings in two columns using regular expressions
• number-generator - Generate an arbitrarily-long list of sequential numbers
• sort-columns - Sort, uniq, reverse, and randomize data
• sum-columns - Quickly sum all values in column
• units - Units - a small portable unit converter
• portable-regex - A regular expression tool with live-updating search and replace

開放詞典

Main project page: github.com/kfcd

• chaizi - 漢語拆字字典
• fanjian - 漢字繁簡體字轉換表
• hyzd - 開放漢語字典 - 現代漢語字音數據庫
• pheng-im - 閩南語拼音轉換表
• pingyam - 粵語拼音轉換表
• pinyin - 漢語拼音轉換表
• yiduiduo - 漢字簡繁轉換一對多字表
• yylc - 粵語量詞資料庫
• yyzd - 開放粵語字典 - 現代粵語字音數據庫

opengrammar

Main project page: github.com/opengrammar

• Learner’s Grammar of Jamaican Creole
• Learner’s Grammar of Lugbarati - In progress.
• Learner’s Grammar of Norwegian - In progress.

open-dsl-dict

Main project page: github.com/open-dsl-dict

• open-dsl-dict/ipa-dict-dsl - IPA Pronunciation Dictionaries in DSL format
• wikidict-dsl-wordlist - Wikidata Monolingual DSL Dictionaries (wordlists)
• wikidict-dsl-nl - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Dutch)
• wikidict-dsl-pt - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Portuguese)
• wikidict-dsl-it - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Italian)
• wikidict-dsl-sv - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Swedish)
• wikidict-dsl-ru - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Russian)
• wikidict-dsl-eo - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Esperanto)
• wikidict-dsl-no - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Norwegian)
• wikidict-dsl-fr - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (French)
• wikidict-dsl-es - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Spanish)
• wikidict-dsl-ja - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Japanese)
• wikidict-dsl-en - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (English)
• wikidict-dsl-de - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (German)
• wikidict-dsl-zh - Wikidata Bilingual DSL Dictionaries (Chinese)
• wiktionary-dict - Offline bilingual dictionaries made using data from Wiktionary
• wikidata-dict - Bilingual dictionaries made from Wikipedia interlanguage links

global-asp

Main project page: github.com/global-asp

• global-asp.github.io - Website for Global ASP
• global-asp - Global ASP - African Storybook Project for the World
• asp-source - Source stories from the African Storybook Project in Markdown format
• gasp-stats - Statistics from the Global African Storybook Project
• global-pb - Global PB - Pratham Books stories for the world
• pb-source - Pratham Books stories in Markdown format
• global-asp/lcb-source - Little Cree Books stories in Markdown format
• global-asp/asp-summaries - Short summaries of African Storybook stories in different languages
• global-asp/gasp-alternates - Alternative orthographies for Global ASP stories
• global-asp/asp-new - New translations of stories for African Storybook
• asp-raw-db - African Storybook Project text database
• global-asp.github.io - Website for Global ASP
• global-lcb - Global LCB - Little Cree Books stories for the world
• gasp-mexico - Translations of Global ASP stories into Indigenous Mexican languages

Images

• asp-imagebank-new - Adapted images from the African Storybook
• asp-imagebank - Repository of open-licensed images from the African Storybook Project
• ci-imagebank - Images for Cuentos indígenas website
• do-tutorials-images - Images from Digital Ocean tutorials
• global-asp/lcb-imagebank - Repository of open-licensed images from Little Cree Books
• gsn-imagebank-outline - Repository for Black & White / Colour-in Global Storybooks Images
• gsn-imagebank - Complete image collection for all Global Storybooks sites
• hbl-imagebank - Repository of open-licensed images from Hambaanglaang Cantonese Graded Readers
• isb-imagebank - Repository of open-licensed images from Indigenous Storybooks
• pb-imagebank - Repository of open-licensed images from Pratham Books
• sbza-imagebank - Repository of open-licensed images from Storybooks South Africa

Audio

• asp-audio - ASP Audio - Open-licensed storybook audio from the African Storybook Project
• gasp-audio - Global ASP Audio - Open-licensed storybook audio from the Global African Storybook Project
• gsn-audio - GlobalStorybooks.net audio recordings
• hbl-audio - HamBaangLaang storybooks audio recordings
• isb-audio - Open-licensed storybook audio from Indigenous Storybooks

Tools

Tools and resources for working with multilingual storybook data:

• nairobi-css - Nairobi CSS: A responsive framework for multilingual literacy sites
• imagebank-explorer - Lightweight tool to explore open-licensed images from the ASP Image Bank
• storybook-jukebox - A media player for multilingual storybooks
• audio-cloze-tests - Audio cloze test generator using open data
• gsn-translator - Global Storybooks Translator: Translation system for GlobalStorybooks.net
• isb-translator - Translation system for the Indigenous Storybooks website
• gasp-translator - Translation frontend for the Global African Storybook Project
• gpb-translator - Translation frontend for the Global Pratham Books Project

Global Storybooks

• storybooks-bangladesh - Source code of the Storybooks Bangladesh website
• storybooks-brasil - Source code of the Storybooks Brasil website
• storybooks-danmark - Source code of the Børnebøger for Danmark website
• storybooks-dc - Source code of the Storybooks D.C. website
• storybooks-deutschland - Source code of the Storybooks Deutschland website
• storybooks-esperantujo - Source code of the Rakontoj por Esperantujo website
• storybooks-ghana - Source code of the Storybooks Ghana website
• storybooks-haiti - Source code of the Storybooks Haiti website
• storybooks-hongkong - Source code of the Storybooks Hong Kong website
• storybooks-hungary - Source code of the Storybooks Hungary website
• storybooks-jamaica - Source code of the Storybooks Jamaica website
• storybooks-japan - Source code of the Storybooks Japan website
• storybooks-kenya - Source code of the Storybooks Kenya website
• storybooks-korea - Source code of the Storybooks Korea website
• storybooks-mexico - Source code of the Storybooks México website
• storybooks-minnesota - Source code of the Storybooks Minnesota website
• storybooks-nigeria - Source code of the Storybooks Nigeria website
• storybooks-norge - Source code of the Storybooks Norge website
• storybooks-pakistan - Source code of the Storybooks Pakistan website
• storybooks-poland - Source code of the Storybooks Poland website
• storybooks-rwanda - Source code of the Storybooks Rwanda website
• storybooks-sah - Source code of the Storybooks Speech and Hearing website
• storybooks-southafrica - Source code of the Storybooks South Africa website
• storybooks-tanzania - Source code of the Storybooks Tanzania website
• storybooks-uganda - Source code of the Storybooks Uganda website
• storybooks-uk - Source code of the Storybooks UK website

• storybooks-zambia - Source code of the Storybooks Zambia website

• isb-source - Indigenous Storybooks stories in Markdown format
• sbc-source - Storybooks Canada source stories
• sbjm-source - Storybooks Jamaica source stories
• sbk-source - Storybooks Kenya source stories
• sbno-source - Barnebøker for Norge source stories
• sbug-source - Storybooks Uganda source stories

Guidelines

• guidelines-audio-editing - Global Storybooks audio editing guidelines
• guidelines-process - Global Storybooks Process Outline
• guidelines-translation - Global Storybooks Translation Guidelines
• audio-recording-guidelines - Guidelines for audio recording text narration

open-dict-data

Main project page: github.com/open-dict-data

• open-dict-data.github.io - Website for open-dict-data project
• ipa-dict - Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA
• norsk-uttale - Audio recordings of Norwegian vocabulary
• wikidict-de - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (German)
• wikidict-en - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (English)
• wikidict-eo - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Esperanto)
• wikidict-es - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Spanish)
• wikidict-fr - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (French)
• wikidict-it - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Italian)
• wikidict-ja - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Japanese)
• wikidict-nl - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Dutch)
• wikidict-no - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Norwegian)
• wikidict-pt - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Portuguese)
• wikidict-ru - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Russian)
• wikidict-sv - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Swedish)
• wikidict-wordlist - Wikipedia Monolingual Reference Data (wordlists)
• wikidict-zh - Wikipedia Bilingual Reference Data (Chinese)

UBC FOSS

• ubcfoss/awesome-ubc-foss - A curated list of awesome Free and Open Source Software projects at the University of British Columbia
• ubcfoss/ubc-orgs - UBC Organizations on GitHub
• ubc-oer - List of open access and OER projects at UBC

Teaching

• tasks-for-teachers - A tagged, reusable, open-licensed collection of teaching tasks for all subject areas

Digital scholarship

• thematic-analysis - A simple data parser to aid in the process of Qualitative Data Analysis with multimodal data

Other

• civclicker-mobile - Mobile version of the classic incremental game CivClicker
• do-tutorials - Digital Ocean tutorials in Markdown format
• example multimedia files for HTML5 projects
• langsci - UBC Language Sciences Research Groups
• mattermost-user-guide - A customizable onboarding guide for organizations using Mattermost
• suisinfar - Collected works of Sui Sin Far in Asciidoctor format
• zh-civclicker - CivClicker (Chinese version)

FOSS project contributions

• 6/stopwords-json - Stopwords for 50 languages in JSON format (fork)
• EvanHahn/English-text-highlighting - Syntax highlighting for prose (fork)
• IonicaBizau/CaiuSS - A Minimalist and Civilized CSS framework. (fork)
• Pat-Carter/stream2chromecast - Chromecast media streamer for Linux (fork)
• cats-yue - Cantonese version of Cats of Jasnah, a game for learning categories and logic
• chinese-character-worksheets - Create PDFs for practicing Chinese character writing. Completely written in HTML, CSS, Javascript
• clipboard2markdown
• darshandsoni/asciidoctor-skins - Control how your asciidoctor powered documentation looks (fork)
• darshandsoni/hippophae - Backend for Seabuckthorn, a community mailing list platform (fork)
• darshandsoni/jalibut - An open-source “search ahead” based directory that can be used to showcase any collection of entities. (fork)
• dlclled/digital-diy - Materials to support computational thinking workshops (fork)
• freenerd/flickr-uploader - Upload all files of a directory to a flickr photoset. Resume if upload stalls … (fork)
• gregier/epub-search - An ePub content searching program (fork)
• jonschlinkert/remarkable - Markdown parser, done right. Commonmark support, extensions, syntax plugins, high speed - all in one. Gulp and metalsmith plugins are also available. (fork)
• kdelaney/germanipa - International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions of German language texts (fork)
• matthiasbeyer/awesome-cli - awesome commandline applications, including tips how to make them even more awesome (fork)
• mexitek/python-image-averaging - Making geek art with python. (fork)
• rupa/epub - python/curses cli epub reader (fork)