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Wiktionary is great. I use it many times every day - for languages I'm learning, but also for learning more about my mother tongue. I've never been able to fi
by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Wiktionary is great. I use it many times every day - for languages I'm learning, but also for learning more about my mother tongue. I've never been able to figure out the mediawiki API but had success just scraping/parsing wiktionary HTML files. For individual languages there are normally standard templates which structure in a nice machine-readable way (much of this can I think in principle be accessed directly with an API but it's in my experience hard to discover how to do any given task with the API vs having the html right there in front of your nose begging out to be parsed).
- rhdunn 4y agoI've generally found that things like the part of speech type is inconsistent, so the wiktionary files require a lot of work to extract the information from them if you want to use the data for natural language processing tasks. I've also found that things like thesaurus/synonym information is incomplete.