ENGLAWI: From Human- to Machine-Readable Wiktionary

Franck Sajous, Basilio Calderone, Nabil Hathout


Abstract
This paper introduces ENGLAWI, a large, versatile, XML-encoded machine-readable dictionary extracted from Wiktionary. ENGLAWI contains 752,769 articles encoding the full body of information included in Wiktionary: simple words, compounds and multiword expressions, lemmas and inflectional paradigms, etymologies, phonemic transcriptions in IPA, definition glosses and usage examples, translations, semantic and morphological relations, spelling variants, etc. It is fully documented, released under a free license and supplied with G-PeTo, a series of scripts allowing easy information extraction from ENGLAWI. Additional resources extracted from ENGLAWI, such as an inflectional lexicon, a lexicon of diatopic variants and the inclusion dates of headwords in Wiktionary’s nomenclature are also provided. The paper describes the content of the resource and illustrates how it can be - and has been - used in previous studies. We finally introduce an ongoing work that computes lexicographic word embeddings from ENGLAWI’s definitions.
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2020.lrec-1.369
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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3016–3026
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.369
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Franck Sajous, Basilio Calderone, and Nabil Hathout. 2020. ENGLAWI: From Human- to Machine-Readable Wiktionary. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3016–3026, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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ENGLAWI: From Human- to Machine-Readable Wiktionary (Sajous et al., LREC 2020)
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