Show HN: Word Legion: Clash Royale-like where any spellable word becomes a troop

Category: devtools

Tags: wiktionary, nlp, data-extraction, dictionary, jsonl

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 8)

Wiktextract is a Python tool that extracts structured data from Wiktionary dumps, expanding templates and Lua macros to produce high-quality JSONL dictionaries. It supports many languages, includes rich linguistic annotations (glosses, forms, pronunciations, translations, etc.), and offers pre-extracted data for easy use. It is highly valuable for NLP, machine translation, and dictionary projects.

Target audience: data engineers, NLP researchers, linguists, developers building language tools

Repository: https://wordlegion.bonnaf.com/?lang=en&src=hn · Python · NOASSERTION · 1288 stars

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