Occitan - Wikilangs Models
Comprehensive Research Report & Full Ablation Study
This repository contains NLP models trained and evaluated by Wikilangs, specifically on Occitan 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 | 3.591x | 3.59 | 0.0580% | 1,039,006 |
| 16k | 3.939x | 3.94 | 0.0637% | 947,222 |
| 32k | 4.234x | 4.24 | 0.0684% | 881,100 |
| 64k | 4.442x π | 4.44 | 0.0718% | 839,942 |
Tokenization Examples
Below are sample sentences tokenized with each vocabulary size:
Sample 1: Lucas Reiner (n. es un actor e productor de cinèma american. american a Los Ange...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βlu cas βrein er β( n . βes βun βactor ... (+11 more) |
21 |
| 16k | βlu cas βrein er β( n . βes βun βactor ... (+11 more) |
21 |
| 32k | βlucas βrein er β( n . βes βun βactor βe ... (+10 more) |
20 |
| 64k | βlucas βreiner β( n . βes βun βactor βe βproductor ... (+9 more) |
19 |
Sample 2: Altwis es un vilatjΓ²t, e comuna soΓ―ssa, situat dins lo districte d'Hochdorf, e l...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βalt w is βes βun βvilat j Γ²t , βe ... (+29 more) |
39 |
| 16k | βalt wis βes βun βvilat j Γ²t , βe βcomuna ... (+26 more) |
36 |
| 32k | βalt wis βes βun βvilatjΓ²t , βe βcomuna βsoΓ―ssa , ... (+24 more) |
34 |
| 64k | βalt wis βes βun βvilatjΓ²t , βe βcomuna βsoΓ―ssa , ... (+22 more) |
32 |
Sample 3: Puebla de la Calzada es un municipi de la provΓncia espanhΓ²la de Badajoz e de la...
| Vocab | Tokens | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 8k | βpu eb la βde βla βcal z ada βes βun ... (+19 more) |
29 |
| 16k | βpu eb la βde βla βcal zada βes βun βmunicipi ... (+15 more) |
25 |
| 32k | βpuebla βde βla βcal zada βes βun βmunicipi βde βla ... (+13 more) |
23 |
| 64k | βpuebla βde βla βcalzada βes βun βmunicipi βde βla βprovΓncia ... (+12 more) |
22 |
Key Findings
- Best Compression: 64k achieves 4.442x compression
- Lowest UNK Rate: 8k with 0.0580% 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 | 40,858 | 15.32 | 382,833 | 16.0% | 32.3% |
| 2-gram | Subword | 256 π | 8.00 | 9,724 | 69.1% | 99.1% |
| 3-gram | Word | 99,251 | 16.60 | 691,705 | 13.3% | 25.5% |
| 3-gram | Subword | 2,095 | 11.03 | 74,490 | 29.1% | 73.4% |
| 4-gram | Word | 144,878 | 17.14 | 1,152,073 | 14.3% | 26.4% |
| 4-gram | Subword | 11,826 | 13.53 | 411,965 | 14.7% | 42.1% |
| 5-gram | Word | 78,202 | 16.25 | 807,722 | 17.0% | 32.1% |
| 5-gram | Subword | 46,870 | 15.52 | 1,292,254 | 8.9% | 27.4% |
Top 5 N-grams by Size
2-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | de la |
213,501 |
| 2 | de l |
104,259 |
| 3 | es una |
53,804 |
| 4 | e la |
52,175 |
| 5 | dins lo |
51,918 |
3-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | es una comuna |
35,541 |
| 2 | e monuments personalitats |
35,308 |
| 3 | monuments personalitats ligadas |
31,330 |
| 4 | e la region |
31,001 |
| 5 | ligams extèrnes nòtas |
30,871 |
4-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | e monuments personalitats ligadas |
31,329 |
| 2 | luΓ²cs e monuments personalitats |
29,121 |
| 3 | ligadas amb la comuna |
28,401 |
| 4 | personalitats ligadas amb la |
28,400 |
| 5 | monuments personalitats ligadas amb |
27,977 |
5-grams (Word):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | personalitats ligadas amb la comuna |
28,398 |
| 2 | e monuments personalitats ligadas amb |
27,976 |
| 3 | monuments personalitats ligadas amb la |
27,973 |
| 4 | luΓ²cs e monuments personalitats ligadas |
27,614 |
| 5 | demografia luΓ²cs e monuments personalitats |
27,263 |
2-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a _ |
3,234,853 |
| 2 | e _ |
3,172,126 |
| 3 | s _ |
3,063,418 |
| 4 | _ d |
3,054,602 |
| 5 | _ l |
2,264,276 |
3-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ d e |
2,037,812 |
| 2 | d e _ |
1,436,433 |
| 3 | _ l a |
884,600 |
| 4 | l a _ |
867,260 |
| 5 | a s _ |
793,636 |
4-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ d e _ |
1,401,348 |
| 2 | _ l a _ |
689,470 |
| 3 | d e _ l |
434,454 |
| 4 | i o n _ |
370,419 |
| 5 | a _ d e |
370,367 |
5-grams (Subword):
| Rank | N-gram | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ d e _ l |
432,360 |
| 2 | e _ l a _ |
285,044 |
| 3 | d e _ l a |
266,977 |
| 4 | s _ d e _ |
254,104 |
| 5 | a _ d e _ |
253,709 |
Key Findings
- Best Perplexity: 2-gram (subword) with 256
- Entropy Trend: Decreases with larger n-grams (more predictable)
- Coverage: Top-1000 patterns cover ~27% 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 | 0.9719 | 1.961 | 8.13 | 622,832 | 2.8% |
| 1 | Subword | 0.8487 | 1.801 | 5.90 | 5,768 | 15.1% |
| 2 | Word | 0.3692 | 1.292 | 2.14 | 5,057,510 | 63.1% |
| 2 | Subword | 0.7604 | 1.694 | 4.98 | 33,998 | 24.0% |
| 3 | Word | 0.1556 | 1.114 | 1.32 | 10,822,711 | 84.4% |
| 3 | Subword | 0.7496 | 1.681 | 4.18 | 169,232 | 25.0% |
| 4 | Word | 0.0609 π | 1.043 | 1.10 | 14,277,493 | 93.9% |
| 4 | Subword | 0.6863 | 1.609 | 3.33 | 707,794 | 31.4% |
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:
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Context Size 3:
es una comuna francesa del departament de tarn e garona ligams extèrnes nòtas de gironda de la regio...e monuments personalitats ligadas amb la comuna véser tanben ligams extèrnes nòtas e referéncias de ...monuments personalitats ligadas amb la comuna véser tanben ligams extèrnes nòtas de la nauta garona ...
Context Size 4:
e monuments personalitats ligadas amb la comuna véser tanben ligams extèrnes nòtas dels vògesluòcs e monuments personalitats ligadas amb la comuna véser tanben ligams extèrnes nòtas de normandi...ligadas amb la comuna véser tanben ligams extèrnes nòtas de normandia de la marga
Generated Text Samples (Subword-based)
Below are text samples generated from each subword-based Markov chain model:
Context Size 1:
_daurenèrd'anaioart_deabesime,_pe_uzarive_se_ge_
Context Size 2:
a_doppsi_morlà _10e_menregièrnasists_panar_mil_de_pl
Context Size 3:
_desfistΓ²ria_cap_ade_jacque_dismeniv_la_(β)_rΓ©gions_en
Context Size 4:
_de_la_grat_de_la_c_la_fibrairie_e_avide_lieux_forcèt_l'a
Key Findings
- Best Predictability: Context-4 (word) with 93.9% predictability
- Branching Factor: Decreases with context size (more deterministic)
- Memory Trade-off: Larger contexts require more storage (707,794 contexts)
- Recommendation: Context-3 or Context-4 for text generation
4. Vocabulary Analysis
Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Vocabulary Size | 298,767 |
| Total Tokens | 19,561,503 |
| Mean Frequency | 65.47 |
| Median Frequency | 4 |
| Frequency Std Dev | 3567.99 |
Most Common Words
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | 1,412,762 |
| 2 | la | 704,581 |
| 3 | e | 516,061 |
| 4 | d | 382,843 |
| 5 | en | 367,851 |
| 6 | lo | 364,128 |
| 7 | l | 357,372 |
| 8 | a | 301,072 |
| 9 | es | 226,360 |
| 10 | un | 196,170 |
Least Common Words (from vocabulary)
| Rank | Word | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | shonkinita | 2 |
| 2 | pirΓ²p | 2 |
| 3 | lherzolita | 2 |
| 4 | miΓ©j | 2 |
| 5 | mangiato | 2 |
| 6 | ignaure | 2 |
| 7 | langfors | 2 |
| 8 | accouplΓ©s | 2 |
| 9 | theodiscus | 2 |
| 10 | nyamuragira | 2 |
Zipf's Law Analysis
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Zipf Coefficient | 1.0382 |
| RΒ² (Goodness of Fit) | 0.998226 |
| Adherence Quality | excellent |
Coverage Analysis
| Top N Words | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Top 100 | 45.3% |
| Top 1,000 | 64.4% |
| Top 5,000 | 78.5% |
| Top 10,000 | 84.0% |
Key Findings
- Zipf Compliance: RΒ²=0.9982 indicates excellent adherence to Zipf's law
- High Frequency Dominance: Top 100 words cover 45.3% of corpus
- Long Tail: 288,767 words needed for remaining 16.0% 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 | 0.7759 | 0.3605 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_64d | 64 | 0.7311 | 0.2808 | N/A | N/A |
| mono_128d | 128 | 0.7021 | 0.2184 | N/A | N/A |
| aligned_32d | 32 | 0.7759 π | 0.3741 | 0.2480 | 0.6180 |
| aligned_64d | 64 | 0.7311 | 0.2733 | 0.3600 | 0.7300 |
| aligned_128d | 128 | 0.7021 | 0.2172 | 0.5080 | 0.8180 |
Key Findings
- Best Isotropy: aligned_32d with 0.7759 (more uniform distribution)
- Semantic Density: Average pairwise similarity of 0.2874. Lower values indicate better semantic separation.
- Alignment Quality: Aligned models achieve up to 50.8% 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 | 0.170 | 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 |
|---|---|
-a |
arrecebèva, auroish, apròhe |
-s |
sfrf, suris, saΓ«ns |
-ma |
manqueront, mahlkirch, maΓ§acans |
-c |
colomberiis, chaohusaurus, campanhard |
-b |
bièle, brixey, bartl |
-m |
mcgowan, manqueront, mahlkirch |
-p |
pennante, pousser, pisuerga |
-ca |
campanhard, casalabriva, castelpers |
Productive Suffixes
| Suffix | Examples |
|---|---|
-s |
suris, kohs, colomberiis |
-a |
goja, fonologica, arrecebèva |
-e |
pennante, bièle, podiosalicone |
-t |
manqueront, projèct, convertissent |
-n |
mcgowan, esteron, rΓ©ligion |
-as |
termonuclearas, taΓ§as, refractΓ rias |
-es |
ecoulettes, vongnes, neuffontaines |
-on |
esteron, réligion, diferencièron |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
itat |
2.00x | 167 contexts | pitat, gitat, itata |
acio |
2.06x | 128 contexts | acion, bacio, racion |
ogra |
1.83x | 133 contexts | dogra, logran, lograr |
raci |
1.80x | 136 contexts | racim, oraci, braci |
tats |
2.06x | 67 contexts | stats, Γ©tats, etats |
ntre |
1.86x | 105 contexts | antre, entre, intre |
Γ©nci |
2.13x | 49 contexts | Γ©ncia, rΓ©ncia, siΓ©ncia |
icio |
1.84x | 83 contexts | licio, vicios, bricio |
stra |
1.35x | 282 contexts | stray, strat, strad |
lita |
1.67x | 94 contexts | litas, elita, clita |
anbe |
2.53x | 19 contexts | anben, tanbe, tanben |
tanb |
2.49x | 19 contexts | tanbn, tanbe, tanban |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
-c |
-s |
210 words | conreats, cippus |
-a |
-s |
171 words | annexis, annuentes |
-p |
-s |
168 words | palays, prΓ©bois |
-s |
-s |
126 words | senΛtises, sevas |
-c |
-a |
119 words | casalta, conoguda |
-a |
-a |
101 words | abjura, abominabla |
-b |
-s |
94 words | brindas, barangays |
-c |
-e |
94 words | colloverge, coroe |
-p |
-a |
91 words | partidΓ ria, plantada |
-m |
-s |
80 words | meus, majusculas |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| velhiment | velhi-me-nt |
7.5 | me |
| hermaphroditism | hermaphroditi-s-m |
7.5 | s |
| tuscaloosa | tuscaloo-s-a |
7.5 | s |
| drepanocitΓ²si | drepanocitΓ²-s-i |
7.5 | s |
| sarrasiet | sarrasi-e-t |
7.5 | e |
| acomplisca | acompli-s-ca |
7.5 | s |
| daissarem | daissar-e-m |
7.5 | e |
| condusent | condus-e-nt |
7.5 | e |
| Γ©troussat | Γ©trous-s-at |
7.5 | s |
| garrwanas | garrw-an-as |
7.5 | an |
| prehistoria | p-re-historia |
7.5 | historia |
| cerevisiae | cerevisi-a-e |
7.5 | a |
| billinghurst | billinghur-s-t |
7.5 | s |
| europeans | europe-an-s |
7.5 | an |
| cherquesses | cherques-s-es |
7.5 | s |
6.6 Linguistic Interpretation
Automated Insight: The language Occitan 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 (4.44x) |
| N-gram | 2-gram | Lowest perplexity (256) |
| Markov | Context-4 | Highest predictability (93.9%) |
| 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 18:02:02



















