{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-comparison-of-wiktionary-thesauri","title":"The comparison of Wiktionary thesauri transformed into the machine-readable format","arxiv_id":"1006.5040","date":"2010-06-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["A. A. Krizhanovsky"],"abstract":"Wiktionary is a unique, peculiar, valuable and original resource for natural\nlanguage processing (NLP). The paper describes an open-source Wiktionary\nparser: its architecture and requirements followed by a description of\nWiktionary features to be taken into account, some open problems of Wiktionary\nand the parser. The current implementation of the parser extracts the\ndefinitions, semantic relations, and translations from English and Russian\nWiktionaries. The paper's goal is to interest researchers (1) in using the\nconstructed machine-readable dictionary for different NLP tasks, (2) in\nextending the software to parse 170 still unused Wiktionaries. The comparison\nof a number and types of semantic relations, a number of definitions, and a\nnumber of translations in the English Wiktionary and the Russian Wiktionary has\nbeen carried out. It was found that the number of semantic relations in the\nEnglish Wiktionary is larger by 1.57 times than in Russian (157 and 100\nthousands). But the Russian Wiktionary has more \"rich\" entries (with a big\nnumber of semantic relations), e.g. the number of entries with three or more\nsemantic relations is larger by 1.63 times than in the English Wiktionary. Upon\ncomparison, it was found out the methodological shortcomings of the Wiktionary.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5040v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.5040v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-comparison-of-wiktionary-thesauri","repo_url":"https://github.com/componavt/wikokit","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}