---
license: apache-2.0
pretty_name: English Wiktionary Data in JSONL
language:
  - en
  - de
  - la
  - grc
  - ko
  - peo
  - akk
  - elx
  - sa
configs:
  - config_name: Wiktionary
    data_files:
    - split: German
      path: german-wiktextract-data.jsonl
    - split: Latin
      path: latin-wiktextract-data.jsonl
    - split: AncientGreek
      path: ancient-greek-wiktextract-data.jsonl
    - split: Korean
      path: korean-wiktextract-data.jsonl
    - split: OldPersian
      path: old-persian-wiktextract-data.jsonl
    - split: Akkadian
      path: akkadian-wiktextract-data.jsonl
    - split: Elamite
      path: elamite-wiktextract-data.jsonl
    - split: Sanskrit
      path: sanskrit-wiktextract-data.jsonl
  - config_name: Knowledge Graph
    data_files:
    - split: AllLanguage
      path: word-definition-graph-data.jsonl
tags:
  - Natural Language Processing
  - NLP
  - Wiktionary
  - Vocabulary
  - German
  - Latin
  - Ancient Greek
  - Korean
  - Old Persian
  - Akkadian
  - Elamite
  - Sanskrit
  - Knowledge Graph
size_categories:
  - 100M<n<1B
---

Wiktionary Data on Hugging Face Datasets
========================================

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[wiktionary-data]() is a sub-data extraction of the [English Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org) that currently
supports the following languages:

- __Deutsch__ - German
- __Latinum__ - Latin
- __Ἑλληνική__ - Ancient Greek
- __한국어__ - Korean
- __𐎠𐎼𐎹__ - [Old Persian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Persian_cuneiform)
- __𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑(𒌝)__ - [Akkadian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language)
- [Elamite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elamite_language)
- __संस्कृतम्__ - Sanskrit, or Classical Sanskrit

[wiktionary-data]() was originally a sub-module of [wilhelm-graphdb](https://github.com/QubitPi/wilhelm-graphdb). While
the dataset it's getting bigger, I noticed a wave of more exciting potentials this dataset can bring about that
stretches beyond the scope of the containing project. Therefore I decided to promote it to a dedicated module; and here
comes this repo.

The Wiktionary language data is available on 🤗 [Hugging Face Datasets][Hugging Face dataset URL].

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("QubitPi/wiktionary-data", split="German")
```

There are __two__ data subsets:

1. __Languages__ subset that contains the sub-data extraction of the following splits:

   - `German`
   - `Latin`
   - `AncientGreek`
   - `Korean`
   - `OldPersian`
   - `Akkadian`
   - `Elamite`
   - `Sanskrit`

2. __Graph__ subset that is useful for constructing knowledge graphs:

   - `AllLanguage`: all the languages in a giant graph

   The _Graph_ data ontology is the following:

   <div align="center">
       <img src="ontology.png" size="50%" alt="Error loading ontology.png"/>
   </div>

> [!TIP]
>
> Two words are structurally similar if and only if the two shares the same
> [stem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem)

Development
-----------

### Data Source

Although [the original Wiktionary dump](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/) is available, parsing it from scratch involves
rather complicated process. For example,
[acquiring the inflection data of most Indo-European languages on Wiktionary has already triggered some research-level efforts](https://stackoverflow.com/a/62977327).
We would probably do it in the future. At present, however, we would simply take the awesome works by
[tatuylonen](https://github.com/tatuylonen/wiktextract) which has already processed it and presented it in
[in JSONL format](https://kaikki.org/dictionary/rawdata.html). wiktionary-data sources the data from
__raw Wiktextract data (JSONL, one object per line)__ option there.

### Environment Setup

Get the source code:

```console
git@github.com:QubitPi/wiktionary-data.git
cd wiktionary-data
```

It is strongly recommended to work in an isolated environment. Install virtualenv and create an isolated Python
environment by

```console
python3 -m pip install --user -U virtualenv
python3 -m virtualenv .venv
```

To activate this environment:

```console
source .venv/bin/activate
```

or, on Windows

```console
./venv\Scripts\activate
```

> [!TIP]
> 
> To deactivate this environment, use
> 
> ```console
> deactivate
> ```

### Installing Dependencies

```console
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```

License
-------

The use and distribution terms for [wiktionary-data]() are covered by the [Apache License, Version 2.0].

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[GitHub workflow status URL]: https://github.com/QubitPi/wiktionary-data/actions/workflows/ci-cd.yaml

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[Hugging Face dataset URL]: https://huggingface.co/datasets/QubitPi/wiktionary-data

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