Limburgish - Wikilangs Models
Comprehensive Research Report & Full Ablation Study
This repository contains NLP models trained and evaluated by Wikilangs, specifically on Limburgish Wikipedia data. We analyze tokenizers, n-gram models, Markov chains, vocabulary statistics, and word embeddings.
π Repository Contents
Models & Assets
- Tokenizers (8k, 16k, 32k, 64k)
- N-gram models (2, 3, 4, 5-gram)
- Markov chains (context of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)
- Subword N-gram and Markov chains
- Embeddings in various sizes and dimensions (aligned and unaligned)
- Language Vocabulary
- Language Statistics
Analysis and Evaluation
- 1. Tokenizer Evaluation
- 2. N-gram Model Evaluation
- 3. Markov Chain Evaluation
- 4. Vocabulary Analysis
- 5. Word Embeddings Evaluation
- 6. Morphological Analysis (Experimental)
- 7. Summary & Recommendations
- Metrics Glossary
- Visualizations Index
1. Tokenizer Evaluation
Results
| Vocab Size | Compression | Avg Token Len | UNK Rate | Total Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8k | 3.459x | 3.46 | 0.1960% | 1,011,080 |
| 16k | 3.797x | 3.80 | 0.2151% | 921,278 |
| 32k | 4.092x | 4.09 | 0.2319% | 854,737 |
| 64k | 4.334x π | 4.34 | 0.2456% | 807,087 |
Tokenization Examples
Below are sample sentences tokenized with each vocabulary size:
Sample 1: AndrΓ©ia Assis Horta (Juiz de Fora, 27 juli is 'n Braziliaanse actrice. luuj geba...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βandrΓ© ia βass is βh ort a β( j u ... (+25 more) |
35 |
| 16k | βandrΓ© ia βass is βh ort a β( j u ... (+25 more) |
35 |
| 32k | βandrΓ© ia βass is βhort a β( ju iz βde ... (+23 more) |
33 |
| 64k | βandrΓ© ia βass is βhorta β( ju iz βde βfora ... (+21 more) |
31 |
Sample 2: 'ne Artiest kan zieΓ«: 'ne keunstenaer 'ne vieΓ«arts
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | β' ne βart ie st βkan βzieΓ« : β' ne ... (+9 more) |
19 |
| 16k | β' ne βart ie st βkan βzieΓ« : β' ne ... (+7 more) |
17 |
| 32k | β' ne βartie st βkan βzieΓ« : β' ne βkeunstenaer ... (+4 more) |
14 |
| 64k | β' ne βartiest βkan βzieΓ« : β' ne βkeunstenaer β' ... (+3 more) |
13 |
Sample 3: Sarthe kan verwieze nao: Sarthe, e departement in Frankriek; Sarthe (reveer), 'n...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βs art he βkan βverwieze βnao : βs art he ... (+18 more) |
28 |
| 16k | βsart he βkan βverwieze βnao : βsart he , βe ... (+15 more) |
25 |
| 32k | βsart he βkan βverwieze βnao : βsart he , βe ... (+15 more) |
25 |
| 64k | βsarthe βkan βverwieze βnao : βsarthe , βe βdepartement βin ... (+12 more) |
22 |
Key Findings
- Best Compression: 64k achieves 4.334x compression
- Lowest UNK Rate: 8k with 0.1960% unknown tokens
- Trade-off: Larger vocabularies improve compression but increase model size
- Recommendation: 32k vocabulary provides optimal balance for production use
2. N-gram Model Evaluation
Results
| N-gram | Variant | Perplexity | Entropy | Unique N-grams | Top-100 Coverage | Top-1000 Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-gram | Word | 25,519 | 14.64 | 104,821 | 14.0% | 30.4% |
| 2-gram | Subword | 290 π | 8.18 | 5,406 | 65.9% | 99.0% |
| 3-gram | Word | 57,452 | 15.81 | 140,834 | 5.2% | 20.7% |
| 3-gram | Subword | 2,584 | 11.34 | 41,526 | 25.6% | 68.5% |
| 4-gram | Word | 92,727 | 16.50 | 222,778 | 5.0% | 19.9% |
| 4-gram | Subword | 15,721 | 13.94 | 237,337 | 12.2% | 36.4% |
| 5-gram | Word | 56,199 | 15.78 | 150,129 | 7.1% | 25.7% |
| 5-gram | Subword | 63,875 | 15.96 | 706,039 | 7.2% | 21.7% |
Top 5 N-grams by Size
2-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | in de |
30,200 |
| 2 | in t |
21,536 |
| 3 | van de |
18,942 |
| 4 | vaan de |
18,520 |
| 5 | d n |
16,860 |
3-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | in d n |
3,329 |
| 2 | vaan d n |
1,343 |
| 3 | sjtΓΆrf op laeftied |
1,213 |
| 4 | d n twintigsten |
1,212 |
| 5 | in nederlands limburg |
1,211 |
4-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | d n twintigsten iew |
1,191 |
| 2 | in d n twintigsten |
1,188 |
| 3 | gebaore in d n |
922 |
| 4 | n gemeinte in de |
660 |
| 5 | gesjtorve in d n |
648 |
5-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | in d n twintigsten iew |
1,185 |
| 2 | gebaore in d n twintigsten |
849 |
| 3 | iew gesjtorve in d n |
552 |
| 4 | is n gemeinte in de |
512 |
| 5 | luuj gebaore in d n |
473 |
2-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | e _ |
1,069,069 |
| 2 | n _ |
685,730 |
| 3 | e r |
585,416 |
| 4 | d e |
557,458 |
| 5 | _ d |
524,469 |
3-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | d e _ |
338,019 |
| 2 | _ d e |
319,388 |
| 3 | e n _ |
204,043 |
| 4 | a n _ |
186,738 |
| 5 | _ i n |
184,570 |
4-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ d e _ |
262,977 |
| 2 | _ i n _ |
141,695 |
| 3 | _ ' t _ |
137,201 |
| 4 | _ e n _ |
110,552 |
| 5 | n _ d e |
97,695 |
5-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | n _ d e _ |
87,044 |
| 2 | _ v a n _ |
83,372 |
| 3 | _ v a a n |
69,215 |
| 4 | v a a n _ |
67,924 |
| 5 | n _ ' t _ |
47,099 |
Key Findings
- Best Perplexity: 2-gram (subword) with 290
- Entropy Trend: Decreases with larger n-grams (more predictable)
- Coverage: Top-1000 patterns cover ~22% of corpus
- Recommendation: 4-gram or 5-gram for best predictive performance
3. Markov Chain Evaluation
Results
| Context | Variant | Avg Entropy | Perplexity | Branching Factor | Unique Contexts | Predictability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Word | 0.8891 | 1.852 | 6.68 | 294,084 | 11.1% |
| 1 | Subword | 0.8968 | 1.862 | 7.36 | 2,040 | 10.3% |
| 2 | Word | 0.2863 | 1.219 | 1.77 | 1,959,482 | 71.4% |
| 2 | Subword | 0.9152 | 1.886 | 5.69 | 15,015 | 8.5% |
| 3 | Word | 0.1004 | 1.072 | 1.18 | 3,453,211 | 90.0% |
| 3 | Subword | 0.8160 | 1.761 | 4.49 | 85,340 | 18.4% |
| 4 | Word | 0.0334 π | 1.023 | 1.05 | 4,063,251 | 96.7% |
| 4 | Subword | 0.7481 | 1.680 | 3.35 | 382,984 | 25.2% |
Generated Text Samples (Word-based)
Below are text samples generated from each word-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
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Context Size 2:
in de sovjetunie verklaort d n hamer en ne clerus oet ein beukske zitte meistal 20 zjwaegelein t parlemint besteit oet drei verticaol ban vaan hendeg persoeneleke door de arabische minderheid ...van de vrouw op dees vraog brink relizjie en allein t belang van limburg ein van de
Context Size 3:
in d n twintigsten iew gesjtorve in de zeveteenden iew gesjtorve in d n twintigsten iew oet vereinigvaan d n hier boeveur heer sjreef achtiende iewse componiste waore ummers neet vrij meh componeerde ...sjtΓΆrf op laeftied leeuwarder courant gerrit ybema overleden 21 jannewarie nederlandj de twiede kame...
Context Size 4:
in d n twintigsten iew oet portugalgebaore in d n twintigsten iew van d n europese raod in de media dèks en eupelek euver sindsd n twintigsten iew gesjtorve in d n twintigsten iew gesjtorve in d n twintigsten iew oet brazilië
Generated Text Samples (Subword-based)
Below are text samples generated from each subword-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
_er_ieg_be_alaaoem_5,6_ncachÀâben_ierbret_dootel
Context Size 2:
e_hΓΆbbejetcharayen_trΓΆgkeneulgbeilert_eΓ«nelsjaonao_
Context Size 3:
de_middig._daovan__de_wat_en_bete_gaen_eintΓΆsse_de_weu
Context Size 4:
_de_ajds_strije_was_in_de_hein-load._m_'t_heet,_cern_liek
Key Findings
- Best Predictability: Context-4 (word) with 96.7% predictability
- Branching Factor: Decreases with context size (more deterministic)
- Memory Trade-off: Larger contexts require more storage (382,984 contexts)
- Recommendation: Context-3 or Context-4 for text generation
4. Vocabulary Analysis
Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Vocabulary Size | 133,120 |
| Total Tokens | 4,585,134 |
| Mean Frequency | 34.44 |
| Median Frequency | 4 |
| Frequency Std Dev | 1100.63 |
Most Common Words
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | 268,955 |
| 2 | in | 146,252 |
| 3 | t | 144,508 |
| 4 | en | 112,120 |
| 5 | van | 84,607 |
| 6 | n | 69,026 |
| 7 | vaan | 66,896 |
| 8 | is | 51,861 |
| 9 | op | 39,534 |
| 10 | d | 32,491 |
Least Common Words (from vocabulary)
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | oeswaal | 2 |
| 2 | etappenhas | 2 |
| 3 | elsner | 2 |
| 4 | denkmaal | 2 |
| 5 | iezermaat | 2 |
| 6 | projram | 2 |
| 7 | klefisch | 2 |
| 8 | vorbei | 2 |
| 9 | kozakkevesting | 2 |
| 10 | jekaterinodar | 2 |
Zipf's Law Analysis
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Zipf Coefficient | 1.0255 |
| RΒ² (Goodness of Fit) | 0.998659 |
| Adherence Quality | excellent |
Coverage Analysis
| Top N Words | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 40.3% |
| Top 1,000 | 61.8% |
| Top 5,000 | 77.1% |
| Top 10,000 | 83.1% |
Key Findings
- Zipf Compliance: RΒ²=0.9987 indicates excellent adherence to Zipf's law
- High Frequency Dominance: Top 100 words cover 40.3% of corpus
- Long Tail: 123,120 words needed for remaining 16.9% coverage
5. Word Embeddings Evaluation
5.1 Cross-Lingual Alignment
5.2 Model Comparison
| Model | Dimension | Isotropy | Semantic Density | Alignment R@1 | Alignment R@10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mono_32d | 32 | 0.8428 π | 0.3285 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_64d | 64 | 0.8228 | 0.2334 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_128d | 128 | 0.8039 | 0.1762 | N/A | N/A |
| aligned_32d | 32 | 0.8428 | 0.3299 | 0.1080 | 0.3900 |
| aligned_64d | 64 | 0.8228 | 0.2386 | 0.2060 | 0.5560 |
| aligned_128d | 128 | 0.8039 | 0.1760 | 0.3120 | 0.6440 |
Key Findings
- Best Isotropy: mono_32d with 0.8428 (more uniform distribution)
- Semantic Density: Average pairwise similarity of 0.2471. Lower values indicate better semantic separation.
- Alignment Quality: Aligned models achieve up to 31.2% R@1 in cross-lingual retrieval.
- Recommendation: 128d aligned for best cross-lingual performance
6. Morphological Analysis (Experimental)
This section presents an automated morphological analysis derived from the statistical divergence between word-level and subword-level models. By analyzing where subword predictability spikes and where word-level coverage fails, we can infer linguistic structures without supervised data.
6.1 Productivity & Complexity
| Metric | Value | Interpretation | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity Index | 5.000 | High morphological productivity | Reliable analysis |
| Idiomaticity Gap | 0.184 | Low formulaic content | - |
6.2 Affix Inventory (Productive Units)
These are the most productive prefixes and suffixes identified by sampling the vocabulary for global substitutability patterns. A unit is considered an affix if stripping it leaves a valid stem that appears in other contexts.
Productive Prefixes
| Prefix | Examples |
|---|---|
-s |
steile, sjtadssentrum, stuhlmanni |
-ge |
gelaegeheje, gelangentied, gedeputeerdje |
-a |
aonbeit, aftonbladet, alaajd |
-b |
blikveld, burink, begreujde |
-be |
begreujde, belles, beaucamps |
-k |
kolonos, korehalme, kaajman |
-m |
mermaid, monogram, meinberg |
-g |
grensgebede, gulliva, gelaegeheje |
Productive Suffixes
| Suffix | Examples |
|---|---|
-e |
einziejige, contraroterendje, korehalme |
-s |
kolonos, wirkers, pretenties |
-n |
kaajman, hallen, gassmann |
-r |
taer, raor, harder |
-er |
taer, harder, soeker |
-g |
verdraag, Γ³ntwiekkeling, meinberg |
-d |
blikveld, mermaid, gelangentied |
-en |
hallen, wijnbergen, vastelaovessezoen |
6.3 Bound Stems (Lexical Roots)
Bound stems are high-frequency subword units that are semantically cohesive but rarely appear as standalone words. These often correspond to the 'core' of a word that requires inflection or derivation to be valid.
| Stem | Cohesion | Substitutability | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
onde |
2.10x | 119 contexts | zonde, sonde, konde |
esjt |
2.13x | 107 contexts | gesjt, haesjt, eesjte |
oond |
2.16x | 80 contexts | hoond, poond, roond |
nger |
1.80x | 164 contexts | enger, Γ΄nger, anger |
gesj |
1.98x | 77 contexts | gesjt, ungesj, gesjat |
erla |
1.79x | 98 contexts | verlag, erlang, ierland |
ersj |
1.65x | 137 contexts | bersj, iersj, versj |
atie |
1.91x | 69 contexts | satie, natie, katie |
chte |
1.52x | 207 contexts | achte, echte, Γ©chte |
fran |
2.33x | 31 contexts | frang, frans, franc |
euve |
1.95x | 57 contexts | euver, leuve, beuve |
rlan |
2.03x | 42 contexts | ΓΈrland, erlang, furlan |
6.4 Affix Compatibility (Co-occurrence)
This table shows which prefixes and suffixes most frequently co-occur on the same stems, revealing the 'stacking' rules of the language's morphology.
| Prefix | Suffix | Frequency | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
-b |
-e |
169 words | bènnevalle, beriechte |
-s |
-e |
163 words | stΓ³rve, snellere |
-a |
-e |
113 words | angelsakse, abchaze |
-ge |
-e |
100 words | gehalte, gelaegeheje |
-m |
-e |
100 words | macfarlane, move |
-k |
-e |
96 words | kaapse, kasse |
-t |
-e |
84 words | tesrizzeltate, tandjheilkΓ³nde |
-s |
-s |
76 words | souvenirs, serres |
-s |
-n |
59 words | stean, sjtein |
-ge |
-d |
58 words | gevoed, gewijzigd |
6.5 Recursive Morpheme Segmentation
Using Recursive Hierarchical Substitutability, we decompose complex words into their constituent morphemes. This approach handles nested affixes (e.g., prefix-prefix-root-suffix).
| Word | Suggested Split | Confidence | Stem |
|---|---|---|---|
| namdalseid | namdals-e-id |
7.5 | e |
| hΓ³ngerddoezjend | hΓ³ngerddoezj-e-nd |
7.5 | e |
| besjtuurslid | besjtuurs-l-id |
7.5 | l |
| seriemaordeneer | seriemaorden-e-er |
7.5 | e |
| valkenvalei | valkenval-e-i |
7.5 | e |
| zieΓ«sjpegel | zieΓ«sjpe-ge-l |
7.5 | ge |
| monumaent | monuma-e-nt |
7.5 | e |
| roxenisse | roxenis-s-e |
7.5 | s |
| weltergewiech | weltergewi-e-ch |
7.5 | e |
| vriendinne | vriendin-n-e |
7.5 | n |
| brΓ³nnegebeed | brΓ³nnegebe-e-d |
7.5 | e |
| poolgebeed | poolgebe-e-d |
7.5 | e |
| kinderleke | kinderl-e-ke |
7.5 | e |
| viemerret | viemerr-e-t |
7.5 | e |
| blokbreke | blokbr-e-ke |
7.5 | e |
6.6 Linguistic Interpretation
Automated Insight: The language Limburgish shows high morphological productivity. The subword models are significantly more efficient than word models, suggesting a rich system of affixation or compounding.
7. Summary & Recommendations
Production Recommendations
| Component | Recommended | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Tokenizer | 64k BPE | Best compression (4.33x) |
| N-gram | 2-gram | Lowest perplexity (290) |
| Markov | Context-4 | Highest predictability (96.7%) |
| Embeddings | 100d | Balanced semantic capture and isotropy |
Appendix: Metrics Glossary & Interpretation Guide
This section provides definitions, intuitions, and guidance for interpreting the metrics used throughout this report.
Tokenizer Metrics
Compression Ratio
Definition: The ratio of characters to tokens (chars/token). Measures how efficiently the tokenizer represents text.
Intuition: Higher compression means fewer tokens needed to represent the same text, reducing sequence lengths for downstream models. A 3x compression means ~3 characters per token on average.
What to seek: Higher is generally better for efficiency, but extremely high compression may indicate overly aggressive merging that loses morphological information.
Average Token Length (Fertility)
Definition: Mean number of characters per token produced by the tokenizer.
Intuition: Reflects the granularity of tokenization. Longer tokens capture more context but may struggle with rare words; shorter tokens are more flexible but increase sequence length.
What to seek: Balance between 2-5 characters for most languages. Arabic/morphologically-rich languages may benefit from slightly longer tokens.
Unknown Token Rate (OOV Rate)
Definition: Percentage of tokens that map to the unknown/UNK token, indicating words the tokenizer cannot represent.
Intuition: Lower OOV means better vocabulary coverage. High OOV indicates the tokenizer encounters many unseen character sequences.
What to seek: Below 1% is excellent; below 5% is acceptable. BPE tokenizers typically achieve very low OOV due to subword fallback.
N-gram Model Metrics
Perplexity
Definition: Measures how "surprised" the model is by test data. Mathematically: 2^(cross-entropy). Lower values indicate better prediction.
Intuition: If perplexity is 100, the model is as uncertain as if choosing uniformly among 100 options at each step. A perplexity of 10 means effectively choosing among 10 equally likely options.
What to seek: Lower is better. Perplexity decreases with larger n-grams (more context). Values vary widely by language and corpus size.
Entropy
Definition: Average information content (in bits) needed to encode the next token given the context. Related to perplexity: perplexity = 2^entropy.
Intuition: High entropy means high uncertainty/randomness; low entropy means predictable patterns. Natural language typically has entropy between 1-4 bits per character.
What to seek: Lower entropy indicates more predictable text patterns. Entropy should decrease as n-gram size increases.
Coverage (Top-K)
Definition: Percentage of corpus occurrences explained by the top K most frequent n-grams.
Intuition: High coverage with few patterns indicates repetitive/formulaic text; low coverage suggests diverse vocabulary usage.
What to seek: Depends on use case. For language modeling, moderate coverage (40-60% with top-1000) is typical for natural text.
Markov Chain Metrics
Average Entropy
Definition: Mean entropy across all contexts, measuring average uncertainty in next-word prediction.
Intuition: Lower entropy means the model is more confident about what comes next. Context-1 has high entropy (many possible next words); Context-4 has low entropy (few likely continuations).
What to seek: Decreasing entropy with larger context sizes. Very low entropy (<0.1) indicates highly deterministic transitions.
Branching Factor
Definition: Average number of unique next tokens observed for each context.
Intuition: High branching = many possible continuations (flexible but uncertain); low branching = few options (predictable but potentially repetitive).
What to seek: Branching factor should decrease with context size. Values near 1.0 indicate nearly deterministic chains.
Predictability
Definition: Derived metric: (1 - normalized_entropy) Γ 100%. Indicates how deterministic the model's predictions are.
Intuition: 100% predictability means the next word is always certain; 0% means completely random. Real text falls between these extremes.
What to seek: Higher predictability for text generation quality, but too high (>98%) may produce repetitive output.
Vocabulary & Zipf's Law Metrics
Zipf's Coefficient
Definition: The slope of the log-log plot of word frequency vs. rank. Zipf's law predicts this should be approximately -1.
Intuition: A coefficient near -1 indicates the corpus follows natural language patterns where a few words are very common and most words are rare.
What to seek: Values between -0.8 and -1.2 indicate healthy natural language distribution. Deviations may suggest domain-specific or artificial text.
RΒ² (Coefficient of Determination)
Definition: Measures how well the linear fit explains the frequency-rank relationship. Ranges from 0 to 1.
Intuition: RΒ² near 1.0 means the data closely follows Zipf's law; lower values indicate deviation from expected word frequency patterns.
What to seek: RΒ² > 0.95 is excellent; > 0.99 indicates near-perfect Zipf adherence typical of large natural corpora.
Vocabulary Coverage
Definition: Cumulative percentage of corpus tokens accounted for by the top N words.
Intuition: Shows how concentrated word usage is. If top-100 words cover 50% of text, the corpus relies heavily on common words.
What to seek: Top-100 covering 30-50% is typical. Higher coverage indicates more repetitive text; lower suggests richer vocabulary.
Word Embedding Metrics
Isotropy
Definition: Measures how uniformly distributed vectors are in the embedding space. Computed as the ratio of minimum to maximum singular values.
Intuition: High isotropy (near 1.0) means vectors spread evenly in all directions; low isotropy means vectors cluster in certain directions, reducing expressiveness.
What to seek: Higher isotropy generally indicates better-quality embeddings. Values > 0.1 are reasonable; > 0.3 is good. Lower-dimensional embeddings tend to have higher isotropy.
Average Norm
Definition: Mean magnitude (L2 norm) of word vectors in the embedding space.
Intuition: Indicates the typical "length" of vectors. Consistent norms suggest stable training; high variance may indicate some words are undertrained.
What to seek: Relatively consistent norms across models. The absolute value matters less than consistency (low std deviation).
Cosine Similarity
Definition: Measures angular similarity between vectors, ranging from -1 (opposite) to 1 (identical direction).
Intuition: Words with similar meanings should have high cosine similarity. This is the standard metric for semantic relatedness in embeddings.
What to seek: Semantically related words should score > 0.5; unrelated words should be near 0. Synonyms often score > 0.7.
t-SNE Visualization
Definition: t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding - a dimensionality reduction technique that preserves local structure for visualization.
Intuition: Clusters in t-SNE plots indicate groups of semantically related words. Spread indicates vocabulary diversity; tight clusters suggest semantic coherence.
What to seek: Meaningful clusters (e.g., numbers together, verbs together). Avoid over-interpreting distances - t-SNE preserves local, not global, structure.
General Interpretation Guidelines
- Compare within model families: Metrics are most meaningful when comparing models of the same type (e.g., 8k vs 64k tokenizer).
- Consider trade-offs: Better performance on one metric often comes at the cost of another (e.g., compression vs. OOV rate).
- Context matters: Optimal values depend on downstream tasks. Text generation may prioritize different metrics than classification.
- Corpus influence: All metrics are influenced by corpus characteristics. Wikipedia text differs from social media or literature.
- Language-specific patterns: Morphologically rich languages (like Arabic) may show different optimal ranges than analytic languages.
Visualizations Index
| Visualization | Description |
|---|---|
| Tokenizer Compression | Compression ratios by vocabulary size |
| Tokenizer Fertility | Average token length by vocabulary |
| Tokenizer OOV | Unknown token rates |
| Tokenizer Total Tokens | Total tokens by vocabulary |
| N-gram Perplexity | Perplexity by n-gram size |
| N-gram Entropy | Entropy by n-gram size |
| N-gram Coverage | Top pattern coverage |
| N-gram Unique | Unique n-gram counts |
| Markov Entropy | Entropy by context size |
| Markov Branching | Branching factor by context |
| Markov Contexts | Unique context counts |
| Zipf's Law | Frequency-rank distribution with fit |
| Vocab Frequency | Word frequency distribution |
| Top 20 Words | Most frequent words |
| Vocab Coverage | Cumulative coverage curve |
| Embedding Isotropy | Vector space uniformity |
| Embedding Norms | Vector magnitude distribution |
| Embedding Similarity | Word similarity heatmap |
| Nearest Neighbors | Similar words for key terms |
| t-SNE Words | 2D word embedding visualization |
| t-SNE Sentences | 2D sentence embedding visualization |
| Position Encoding | Encoding method comparison |
| Model Sizes | Storage requirements |
| Performance Dashboard | Comprehensive performance overview |
About This Project
Data Source
Models trained on wikipedia-monthly - a monthly snapshot of Wikipedia articles across 300+ languages.
Project
A project by Wikilangs - Open-source NLP models for every Wikipedia language.
Maintainer
Citation
If you use these models in your research, please cite:
@misc{wikilangs2025,
author = {Kamali, Omar},
title = {Wikilangs: Open NLP Models for Wikipedia Languages},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18073153},
publisher = {Zenodo},
url = {https://huggingface.co/wikilangs}
institution = {Omneity Labs}
}
License
MIT License - Free for academic and commercial use.
Links
- π Website: wikilangs.org
- π€ Models: huggingface.co/wikilangs
- π Data: wikipedia-monthly
- π€ Author: Omar Kamali
- π€ Sponsor: Featherless AI
Generated by Wikilangs Models Pipeline
Report Date: 2026-01-10 11:01:05



















