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From the article: "I landed on the freeDictionary API that uses the Wiktionary as a source.".
by jobigoud 4y ago
From the article: "I landed on the freeDictionary API that uses the Wiktionary as a source.".
- chii 4y agoWhy didn't they just download the dumps via https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ (as explained in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktiona...) Scraping, even via an api, is way less efficient imho.
- gnubison 4y agoThey’re in wikitext, which looks to be considerably less semantic than the crawled data. I’m not sure that’s the reason, but it could be a reason.
- chii 4y agoI'd say not the reason, since the wiki text is pretty semantic. the wiki source of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subbureau#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subbureau#English is: ==English== ===Etymology=== {{prefix|en|sub|bureau}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun|s|subbureaux}} # A [[district]]-level public security bureau in [[China]]. so as long as one can parse wikitext, it's split pretty well up!