ENGLAWI

Description ENGLAWI is an English Machine-Readable Dictionary encoded in XML format. It is a structured and normalized version of Wiktionary. The dictionary includes: simple words, compounds and multiword expressions inflected forms and lemmas etymologies pronunciations in API definitions (glosses and examples) translations semantic relations morphological relations spelling variations ENGLAWI is supplied with G-PeTo, a series of Perl Scripts intended to help extract information from the large XML file. Ready-to-use lexicons that have been extracted from ENGLAWI are also provided (see the download section below). Developers Franck Sajous, Basilio Calderone and Nabil Hathout Person in charge Franck Sajous Contact :

ENGLAWI is available under a Creative Commons By-SA 3.0 license (the same license as Wiktionary, from which it has been extracted).
The GLAWI logo is designed by Darwin.

A description the ENGLAWI structure can be found in the online documentation as well as examples of the dictionary content.


The current version is extracted from Wiktionary's 01/06/2017 dump.

• ENGLAWI_D2017-06-01_R2020-04-01.xml.7z
• ENGLAWI's DTD

Resources derived from ENGLAWI:

• DIVAE: DIatopic VAriation of English
• WIND: Wiktionary INclusion Dates
• ENGLAFF: an Inflectional Lexicon extracted from ENGLAWI

• Franck Sajous, Basilio Calderone and Nabil Hathout (2020). ENGLAWI: From Human- to Machine-Readable Wiktionary. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), Marseille, France, pp. 3016-3026.