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# Glosbe

## **Overview**

This corpus comes from the crowdsourced online dictionary Glosbe. Currently we have only included Amis, which was (at time of checking) the only reasonably sized dictionary.

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## Corpus Statistics

|                           | <p>Amis<br>UK</p> |
| ------------------------- | ----------------- |
| Word count                | 91,201            |
| Total audio               | 0                 |
| Transcribed               | 0                 |
| Untranscribed             | 0                 |
| Translated words          |                   |
| English                   | 0                 |
| Mandarin                  | 91,201            |
| Morphologically segmented | 0                 |
| Glossed words             | 0                 |

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## **Corpus Processing**

The process involves several steps to extract, scrape, clean and format the data:

1. **Extract Common Words**:

```bash
python work/scripts/extract_words.py
```

**Output**: Generates list of most frequent Amis words from reference corpus

2. **Scrape Translations**:

```bash
python work/scripts/scrape_zh.py
```

**Output**: Raw translation pairs saved to JSON

3. **Deduplicate Translations**:

```bash
python work/scripts/dedupe_zh.py
```

**Output**: Cleaned JSON file with unique translation pairs

4. **Convert to XML Format**:

```bash
python work/scripts/make_xml.py
```

**Output**: FormosanBank XML format in `Final_XML/amis_glosbe.xml`

5. **Validate XML** (Optional):

```bash
python work/scripts/validate.py
```

**Output**: Validation report of XML structure

6. **Clean XML** (Optional):

```bash
   python work/scripts/clean_xml.py
```

**Output**: Standardized punctuation and cleaned XML

7. **Update XML**

Replace-all:

->

8. **Add Traditional Chinese**

This was done semi-automatically. It's not easily reproducible.

9. **Standardize**

It looks like it's Ortho94 (mostly). But conversion won't change anything relevant.

```bash
   python ../FormosanBank/QC/utilities/standardize.py --corpora_path Final_XML --copy
```

9. **Remove some colons**

Colons are used for introducing quotes in this text. However, colons have a specific meaning in the standard orthography, so replace with commas.

```bash
   python work/scripts/fix_colon_quote.py
```

10. **Add IPA**

The IPA for Ortho94 is different from Ortho113, so go ahead and use it for the "original" tier.

```bash
   python ../FormosanBank/QC/utilities/add_phonology.py --corpora_path Final_XML --orthography Ortho94
```

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## **Corpus Notes**

Because this is a crowd-sourced dictionary, its accuracy is uncertain.

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## **Access Details**

* The repo containing the Glosbe corpus in FormosanBank as well as the code to reconstruct the corpus can be found [here](https://github.com/FormosanBank/FormosanBank/tree/main/Corpora/Glosbe).

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## **Copyright**

CC-BY-SA

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## Citation

In accordance with our [Terms of Use](/formosanbank/additional-resources/terms-of-use.md), if you use this corpus or any product derived from this corpus in any publication, you must cite both FormosanBank and:

* Glosbe. (n.d.). Glosbe dictionary. <https://glosbe.com>. Accessed 2025.


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