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Rename package to more general name? #14

Closed LinguList closed 4 months ago

LinguList commented 4 months ago

I was thinking about renaming the package, now, that we are in principle away from "clts", as we have as input a string that represents a sound by its features. This system -- provided features from CLTS are used (but CLTS is also pretty standard, in fact, clts mimicks the IPA) -- is more general than CLTS itself. The 2vec is also a phrase that is usually for embeddings, but the vectors are derived from features, and the feature is the core.

LinguList commented 4 months ago

Names occurring to me are: soundvecs with class SoundVecs or featvecs with class FeatVecs for "feature vectors", since we have vectors corresponding to features. Or just soundvectors ? (of course distfeat already exists, but this is of course obvious, and the name is anyway rather ugly).

BTW: if we don't mention, we should probably add ipasymbols to the list of packages available in the paper and also emphasize why we go beyond.

arubehn commented 4 months ago

I agree, in fact I had also thought about that already. Out of these options, I prefer featvecs, but I am honestly not thrilled by either of these names. Maybe let's take some more time to brainstorm :)

Thank you for pointing out the ipasymbols package, I wasn't aware of it. I will make sure to include it in the paper!

LinguList commented 4 months ago

Let us brainstorm a little.

arubehn commented 4 months ago

@LinguList I have renamed everything inside this repository to the new package name soundvectors, however I do not have the permission to change the name of the repository itself. Could you do that?

LinguList commented 4 months ago

You can do it now. You are admin :-)

arubehn commented 4 months ago

Cool, thanks - already done :)