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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Fetch the Polish ELTeC corpus (European Literary Text Collection, COST Action
'Distant Reading') into a SpeakLeash-style .jsonl.zst. ~100 Polish novels
(1840-1920), level-1 TEI XML, released CC-BY. Directly sourced from GitHub.
Usage:
python3 src/fetch_eltec.py --out ~/Local/Ventures/Slayer/data/speakleash
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse, json, re, subprocess, time
from pathlib import Path
from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
API = "https://api.github.com/repos/COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-pol/contents/level1"
TEI = "{http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0}"
XML_ID = "{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}id"
SEPARATOR = "\n\n" # between paragraphs
# The one <front> or <back> kept in the text of a novel, by the xml:id of its <TEI> element: POL0100 (Makuszyński,
# "Po mlecznej drodze") opens with the author's address to the reader in <front>; POL0091 (Żeromski, "Dzieje
# grzechu") ends with the author's draft passages (Dodatek) in <back>. The title pages and the other <front>
# and <back> parts stay out.
RESTORED_PARTS = {"POL0100": "front", "POL0091": "back"}
UA = {"User-Agent": "polish-dynaword/0.1 (+research; openly-licensed corpus)"}
KEY = "eltec_pol"
MIN_CHARS = 200
def _get(url, raw=False, tries=4):
for i in range(tries):
try:
with urlopen(Request(url, headers=UA), timeout=60) as r:
data = r.read()
return data if raw else json.loads(data)
except Exception:
time.sleep(1.5 * (i + 1))
return None
def _paragraph_elements(parent, inside_text=False):
"""(kind, element) in document order for every <p> under `parent`, nested ones too, and every <head> that is not
inside a <p> or a <head> and holds no <p> (its text is in that paragraph already)."""
for child in parent:
if child.tag == f"{TEI}p":
yield "p", child
elif child.tag == f"{TEI}head" and not inside_text and child.find(f".//{TEI}p") is None:
yield "head", child
yield from _paragraph_elements(child, inside_text or child.tag in (f"{TEI}p", f"{TEI}head"))
def tei_paragraphs(root):
"""The non-empty paragraphs of the reading text of a parsed TEI file as (kind, text), in reading order.
kind is "p" for a <p> of <body>, "head" for a <head> of <body> (a chapter title, in its place among the
paragraphs), and "front" or "back" for each <p> and <head> of the one <front> or <back> RESTORED_PARTS names
for the file. Whitespace inside a paragraph is collapsed."""
restored = RESTORED_PARTS.get(root.get(XML_ID))
paragraphs = []
for section in ("front", "body", "back"):
part = root.find(f".//{TEI}text/{TEI}{section}")
if part is not None and section in ("body", restored):
paragraphs += [(kind if section == "body" else section,
re.sub(r"\s+", " ", " ".join(el.itertext())).strip())
for kind, el in _paragraph_elements(part)]
return [(kind, text) for kind, text in paragraphs if text]
def tei_to_text(xml_bytes):
"""Extract reading text (title + paragraphs, see tei_paragraphs) from a TEI file."""
from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring
root = fromstring(xml_bytes)
title_el = root.find(f".//{TEI}titleStmt/{TEI}title")
title = (title_el.text or "").strip() if title_el is not None else ""
return title, SEPARATOR.join(text for _, text in tei_paragraphs(root))
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("--out", default="~/Local/Ventures/Slayer/data/speakleash")
args = ap.parse_args()
out_dir = Path(args.out).expanduser(); out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
listing = _get(API) or []
files = [f for f in listing if f["name"].endswith(".xml")]
print(f"ELTeC-pol: {len(files)} TEI files", flush=True)
jsonl = out_dir / f"{KEY}.jsonl"; kept = 0; t0 = time.time()
with jsonl.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as fo:
for i, f in enumerate(files, 1):
xml = _get(f["download_url"], raw=True)
if not xml:
print(f" ! skip {f['name']}"); continue
title, text = tei_to_text(xml)
if len(text) < MIN_CHARS:
continue
fo.write(json.dumps({
"text": text,
"meta": {"url": f["html_url"], "title": title,
"file": f["name"], "domain": "literature"},
}, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n")
kept += 1
if i % 20 == 0:
print(f" {i}/{len(files)} | kept {kept}", flush=True)
subprocess.run(["zstd", "-19", "-f", "--rm", str(jsonl),
"-o", str(out_dir / f"{KEY}.jsonl.zst")], check=True)
print(f"{KEY}: {kept} novels in {round(time.time()-t0)}s -> {KEY}.jsonl.zst")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()