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Wiktionary Parser Update

3 Feb, 2013 in Lexicography, Programming by

The Wiktionary parser (Wikparser), a small tool able to extract specific information from Wiktionary entries, has been updated to version 0.2c. It can now be used to extract hypernyms. Unfortunately, hypernyms are under-represented in Wiktionary. If you’re working on English, you’d be better served by Wordnet.

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Wikparser – A Wiktionary Text Parser

26 Aug, 2011 in Lexicography, Programming by

Perhaps you need an easy and quick way to extract specific information from a Wiktionary entry, such as a word’s part of speech or definitions? While Wikimedia’s API allows you to retrieve text-only entries for a given word, it doesn’t allow you to target a specific subsection of the entries. This is where the Wikparser […]

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Matching UTF-8 encoded characters with regular expressions

22 Apr, 2011 in Programming by

Working with accented characters (or any unicode, non latin character for that matter) often poses problems when trying to match them using regular expression functions such as preg_match or preg_replace in PHP. The w expression is meant to match any word character, but it won’t match é or ï in a unicode (UTF-8) encoded string. […]

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Limit time between connections with PHP

21 Apr, 2011 in Programming by

Say you have a script/api that you want to host on your own server, but would like to set a minimum period of time between calls. If you don’t have access to your Apache settings, there are few simple ways to do it with a bit of PHP code. First, you could use PHP’s sleep() […]

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