covid19/transliterations
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README.md Finish MVP for transliterations 2020-03-24 22:06:45 -07:00

Transliterations

This part of the project collects tranliterations of key phrases related to COVID-19 using Wikidata. We search the Wikidata API for entities in src/wikidata_search.py and then we make simple SPARQL queries in src/wikidata_transliterations.py to collect labels and aliases the entities. The labels come with language metadata. This seems to provide a decent initial list of relevant terms across multiple languages.