latin_english_lexicon_old.xml

The file latin_english_lexicon_old.xml comes from Perseus, where it is was called 1999.04.0059.xml (http://sourceforge.net/projects/perseus-hopper/) and licensed under the Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1).

Parsing

To parse with Python, the following works:

from lxml import etree
from io import StringIO
import os

old_path = os.path.expanduser('~/cltk_data/latin/lexicon/latin_lexica_perseus/latin_english_lexicon_old.xml')
with open(old_path) as f:
    old_xml = f.read()
tree = etree.parse(StringIO(old_xml))

entries = tree.xpath('/TEI.2/text/body/div0/entryFree')

print(len(entries))  # 51594

for x in entries:
    print(x.get('key'))
    input()

latin-analyses.json

The file latin-analyses.json contains definitions for word present in latin text corpus. The definitions are scraped from the Perseues website using scraper.py

Scraping

python3 scraper.py <input_filename> <output_filename> <language>

The scraper tries to fetch definitions for words present in the input file at start of each line.