Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Classification
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
csv
Languages:
Burmese
Size:
10K - 100K
License:
| license: mit | |
| language: | |
| - my | |
| tags: | |
| - Myanmar | |
| - Burmese | |
| - Lexicon | |
| - Subword | |
| - Wiktionary | |
| - Tokenization | |
| - Dictionary | |
| - Unicode | |
| pretty_name: Myanmar Wiktionary Words | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-classification | |
| # 📚 Myanmar Wiktionary Words | |
| A high-quality dataset of over **26,000 Myanmar (Burmese) words** scraped from [my.wiktionary.org](https://my.wiktionary.org), enriched with subword-level segmentation. This dataset is intended for use in lexical modeling, NLP tokenization tasks, and morphological analysis of the Myanmar language. | |
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| ## ✨ Dataset Highlights | |
| ``` | |
| - ✅ **26K+ Myanmar lexical entries**, sourced from online Wiktionary | |
| - 🧱 **Subword segmentation** included for each word using intelligent Python rules | |
| - 🧼 **Manual curation** to correct common Myanmar typographic issues (e.g., `န့` → `န့်`) | |
| - 🔡 **Preserved** numeric and punctuation entries (e.g., `0–9`, `။`, `၊`) due to their semantic and grammatical importance | |
| - 🧹 **Filtered out** isolated diacritics such as `ါ`, `ာ`, `ိ`, `ု`, etc., which carry no meaning on their own when detached | |
| ``` | |
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| ## 📦 File Format | |
| - **File**: `my_wikitionary.csv` | |
| - **Encoding**: UTF-8 | |
| - **Fields**: | |
| - `my_word`: the full Myanmar lexical item | |
| - `my_subword`: a space-separated list of quoted subwords (e.g., `"xxx" "yyy"`) | |
| ### 📋 Example Rows | |
| ``` | |
| | my_word | my_subword | | |
| |------------|--------------------------| | |
| | ဧတဒဂ် | "ဧ" "တ" "ဒဂ်" | | |
| | ကကဏ္ဋက | "က" "ကဏ္ဋ" "က" | | |
| | ၅ | "၅" | | |
| | ။ | "။" (Myanmar full stop) | | |
| ``` | |
| --- | |
| ## 🧠 Construction Process | |
| 1. **Data Source**: Scraped systematically from the `my.wiktionary.org` interface. | |
| 2. **Unicode Normalization**: Normalized all entries to NFC form for consistency. | |
| 3. **Subword Tokenization**: Employed rule-based segmentation to split compounds, prefixes, and suffixes. | |
| 4. **Manual Corrections**: | |
| - Fixed corrupted forms like `န့`, `င့်`, `မ့်`, `ည့်` | |
| - Preserved meaningful characters like `။` (Myanmar full stop), `၊` (comma), and numerals (`၀–၉`) | |
| - Removed meaningless standalone signs like `ါ`, `ာ`, `ိ`, `ု` which do not function as words | |
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| ## 📊 Applications | |
| ``` | |
| - 📖 Myanmar language lexicon building | |
| - ✂️ Subword tokenization model training | |
| - 🧪 Morphological parsing and grammar analysis | |
| - 🔤 Dictionary and spell-checker development | |
| - 🤖 Preprocessing pipelines for Burmese NLP tasks | |
| ``` | |
| --- | |
| ## 📁 File Statistics | |
| ``` | |
| - Entries: ~26,000+ | |
| - Fields: `my_word`, `my_subword` | |
| - Format: Clean UTF-8 CSV | |
| ``` | |
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| ## 🙏 Acknowledgments | |
| This project would not be possible without the collective care and wisdom of those who came before. | |
| ✨ While I applied only limited effort to clean and organize this dataset, **all credit belongs to the tireless souls of Wiktionary**—especially the great and compassionate contributors who gave countless unpaid hours to preserve and document their language. | |
| **Wiktionary**, like its sister project Wikipedia, was launched by the **Wikimedia Foundation** in 2002—not by any single founder, but as a bold invitation to all. Proposed by **Daniel Alston** and technically supported early on by **Brion Vibber**, it has grown entirely thanks to a global community of volunteers. | |
| These anonymous and often unsung contributors—linguists, students, monks, migrants, hobbyists—quietly type and revise, not for reward, but out of love for their language and a hope that it may be known, spoken, and lived. | |
| > Their invisible labor is a gift. A monument built stone by stone, not by one sculptor, but by thousands of hands. | |
| - 🧭 Source: [my.wiktionary.org](https://my.wiktionary.org) | |
| - 💻 Python processing and validation by Myanmar language researchers | |
| - ❤️ Eternal gratitude to Wiktionary’s volunteers who help languages live on, one entry at a time | |
| ``` | |
| > _“May the value of their invisible work echo far beyond the lines of code we wrap it in.”_ 🕊️ | |
| ``` | |
| --- | |
| ## 🔓 License | |
| ``` | |
| Distributed under the **MIT License** – free to use, modify, and distribute with attribution. | |
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| --- | |
| ## 💬 Citation | |
| `` | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @dataset{freococo2025myanmarwikitionary, | |
| title = {Myanmar Wikitionary Words}, | |
| author = {freococo}, | |
| year = {2025}, | |
| url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/freococo/myanmar_wikitionary_words}, | |
| note = {Version 1.0, Hugging Face Datasets} | |
| } | |
| ``` |