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Scrapes a downloaded wiktionary dump
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Copyright (c) 2012 Jacob Silterra
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"""
"""
Read through dump of wiktionary database
Scrape words and their pronunciations
"""
import os
import sys
import bz2
import re
#Different phonetic alphabets
phon_alphs = ["enPR","IPA","X-SAMPA"]
def open_file(file_path):
if(file_path.endswith("bz2")):
f = bz2.BZ2File(file_path,'r')
else:
f = open(file_path, 'r')
return f
def _get_xml_data(file_path):
f = open_file(file_path)
data = etree.parse(f)
f.close()
return data
def format_cur_word(cur_word):
pronstr = cur_word['pronunciation']
if pronstr is None:
pronstr = "xxNonexx"
pronstr = pronstr.replace("\n","")
outstr = cur_word['title'] + "\t" + pronstr
return outstr
def create_full_word_list(file_path, keep_filter= lambda x: True):
f = open_file(file_path)
#max_lines = 50# int(sys.argv[1])
max_words = -1
#print "max_lines: %d" % (max_lines)
#We don't parse the full xml tree, python seems to run
#out of memory when we do that
#Which means we're going to have some ugly looking in-page type stuff
inpage = False
ineng = False
inpron = False
numlines = 0
cur_word = {}
all_words = []
for line in f:
numlines += 1
#if max_lines > 0 and numlines >= max_lines:
#break
if max_words > 0 and len(all_words) >= max_words:
break
if "<page>" in line:
inpage = True
cur_word = {}
if "</page>" in line:
assert inpage
has_spaces = " " in cur_word['title']
if ineng and not has_spaces and keep_filter(cur_word['title']):
all_words.append(cur_word)
#print format_cur_word(cur_word)
inpage = False
ineng = False
inpron = False
if inpage:
#The most obvious place to get the word
#is actually the title of the page. Will get
#some false positives this way
if "<title>" in line:
title = line.replace("<title>","")
title = title.replace("</title>","")
cur_word['title'] = title.strip().replace("\n","")
for phon_alph in phon_alphs:
cur_word[phon_alph] = None
if "==English==" in line:
#We are only taking english words
ineng = True
pronstr = None
elif ineng and "==Pronunciation==" in line:
inpron = True
pronstr = ""
elif ineng and inpron and "==" in line:
pron_props = split_pron_text(pronstr.strip())
cur_word.update(pron_props)
pronstr = None
inpron = False
elif inpron:
pronstr += line + "\n"
return all_words
def get_out_keys():
keys = ['word','ie', 'ei', 'after_c']
keys.extend(phon_alphs)
return keys
def format_wordprops(props):
keys = get_out_keys()
outstr = props[keys[0]]
for key in keys[1::]:
outstr += "\t" + str(props[key])
return outstr
def split_pron_text(pron_string):
props = {alph:None for alph in phon_alphs}
if "This entry needs pronunciation information" in pron_string:
return props
#This should split pronunciation text
#into separate lines
try:
pron_toks = pron_string.split("*")
except IndexError:
pron_toks = []
for phon_alph in phon_alphs:
for tok in pron_toks:
#Only use US dialect if specified
if "{{a|US" not in tok and "{{a|" in tok:
continue
tok = tok.replace("{{a|US}}","")
tok = tok.replace("\n","")
#Different alphabets are comma separated
phon_toks = tok.split(",")
for phon_tok in phon_toks:
for phon_alph in phon_alphs:
phon_loc = phon_tok.find(phon_alph)
if phon_loc >= 0:
strt_loc = phon_loc + len(phon_alph) + 1
end_loc = phon_tok.find("}}",strt_loc)
assert strt_loc >= 0
pron = phon_tok[strt_loc:end_loc]
pron = re.sub("lang=.{0,2}","", pron)
pron = pron.strip("|")
pron = pron.strip("/")
props[phon_alph] = pron
return props
def parse_word_list_file(word_list_path):
#Parse string back to python data types
fi = open(word_list_path, 'r')
keys = fi.readline().split("\t")
keys = [key.strip() for key in keys]
word_list = []
for line in fi:
word_props = {}
ind = 0
for tok in line.split("\t"):
val = tok.strip()
if tok == 'None':
val = None
elif tok == 'True':
val = True
elif tok == 'False':
val = False
if key == "word":
val = val.lower()
word_props[keys[ind]] = val
ind += 1
word_list.append(word_props)
fi.close()
return word_list
def create_word_list(db_file_path, word_list_path):
#Parse wiki db, extract english words and pronunciations only
def keep_func(word):
temp = word.lower()
return 'ie' in temp or 'ei' in temp
#Generate this temporary file, apparently it doesn't exist
word_list = create_full_word_list(db_file_path, keep_func)
fi = open(word_list_path, 'w')
header_line = "\t".join(get_out_keys())
fi.write(header_line + "\n")
for word_props in word_list:
word = word_props['title'].lower()
word_props['word'] = word
word_props['ie'] = 'ie' in word
word_props['ei'] = 'ei' in word
word_props['after_c'] = 'cie' in word or 'cei' in word
out_line = format_wordprops(word_props)
#print out_line
fi.write(out_line + "\n")
fi.close()
return word_list
if __name__ == "__main__":
db_file_path = "enwiktionary-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2.xml.bz2"
filtered_word_list_path = 'ie_ei_only.txt'
try:
word_list = parse_word_list_file(filtered_word_list_path)
except IOError:
print "Print word list %s not found, generating" % (filtered_word_list_path)
word_list = create_word_list(db_file_path, filtered_word_list_path)
#Compile some statistics on words, mostly checking
#to see how much pronunciation info we have
num_words = len(word_list)
have_any = 0
pron_counts = {x:0 for x in phon_alphs}
trouble = 0
for word in word_list:
have_pron = False
for alph in phon_alphs:
if alph in word and word[alph] is not None:
pron_counts[alph] += 1
have_pron = True
if have_pron:
have_any += 1
if word['ie'] and word['ei']:
trouble += 1
def unambiguous_ipa(word):
good = word['IPA'] is not None
good = good and (word['ei'] is not word['ie'])
return good
have_ipa = filter(unambiguous_ipa, word_list)
#print "%d words, %d have some pronunciation info" % (num_words, have_any)
#print pron_counts
#Note: As of Aug. 18, results:
#18967 words, 761 have some pronunciation info
#{'IPA': 753, 'X-SAMPA': 182, 'enPR': 65}
#Clearly IPA is the most popular
summary = []
#We think this is the right sound, although there
#may be others which are close
long_a_sound = u"eɪ"
for word in have_ipa:
reason = None
cur_sum = {'word': word['word'].lower()}
#If the phoneme is not in the string at all, we
#know that in can't be a long a sound
ipa_str = unicode(word['IPA'], 'utf-8')
if word['ei'] and word['after_c']:
follows = True
reason = "ei after c"
if word['ie'] and not word['after_c'] and long_a_sound not in ipa_str:
follows = True
reason = "ie, not after c, no weigh sound"
if word['ie'] and word['after_c']:
follows = False
reason = "ie after c"
if reason is None:
#Okay, easy cases done. At this point we need to check
#if the 'ei' or 'ie' has a long a sound. If the word
#has 'ei' and that syllable has a long a, or if the word
#is 'ie' and does NOT have that sound, we follow the rule.
#otherwise we break it
if word['ei']:
sp = 'ei'
reason = 'ei'
elif word['ie']:
sp = 'ie'
reason = 'ie'
sp_loc = word['word'].find(sp)
#Mapping characters onto pronunciation is tricky
#We take the ratio of the length of the IPA string
#to the written spelling to get an idea of how many pronunciation
#characters are used per written character
pron_chars_per_glyph = 1.0 * len(ipa_str) / len(word['word'])
pron_loc = int(sp_loc * pron_chars_per_glyph)
start = max(0, pron_loc-1)
end = min(start + len(long_a_sound) + 3, len(ipa_str))
sub_pron_str = ipa_str[start:end]
## word_out = word['word'].lower()
## word_out = word_out.replace(sp,sp.upper())
## print "%s: %s" % (word_out,sub_pron_str)
if long_a_sound in sub_pron_str:
follows = word['ei']
reason += " with weigh"
elif long_a_sound not in sub_pron_str:
follows = word['ie']
reason += " with no weigh"
cur_sum['follows'] = follows
cur_sum['reason'] = reason
summary.append(cur_sum)
#print "%d follow the rule up to 'after c', out of %d" % (tot_ie + tot_cei,
# len(have_ipa) )
#print "%d have a long a sound" % (len(have_a))
#Check integrity
follow_rule = filter(lambda x: x['follows'], summary)
break_rule = filter(lambda x: not x['follows'], summary)
total_checked = len(have_ipa)
num_follow = len(follow_rule)
num_break = len(break_rule)
print "Total: %d Follow rule: %d Break rule: %d Error: %d" % (total_checked,
num_follow, num_break, total_checked - num_follow - num_break)
for follow in follow_rule:
assert follow not in break_rule
keys = ['word','follows','reason']
summary = sorted(summary, key=lambda x: x['word'])
for el in summary:
assert 'ie' in el['word'] or 'ei' in el['word']
line = '\t'.join(["%s" % el[key] for key in keys])
print line
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