| --- |
| language: ch |
| language_name: Chamorro |
| language_family: austronesian_oceanic_other |
| tags: |
| - wikilangs |
| - nlp |
| - tokenizer |
| - embeddings |
| - n-gram |
| - markov |
| - wikipedia |
| - feature-extraction |
| - sentence-similarity |
| - tokenization |
| - n-grams |
| - markov-chain |
| - text-mining |
| - fasttext |
| - babelvec |
| - vocabulous |
| - vocabulary |
| - monolingual |
| - family-austronesian_oceanic_other |
| license: mit |
| library_name: wikilangs |
| pipeline_tag: text-generation |
| datasets: |
| - omarkamali/wikipedia-monthly |
| dataset_info: |
| name: wikipedia-monthly |
| description: Monthly snapshots of Wikipedia articles across 300+ languages |
| metrics: |
| - name: best_compression_ratio |
| type: compression |
| value: 4.248 |
| - name: best_isotropy |
| type: isotropy |
| value: 0.0563 |
| - name: vocabulary_size |
| type: vocab |
| value: 0 |
| generated: 2026-01-03 |
| --- |
| |
| # Chamorro - Wikilangs Models |
| ## Comprehensive Research Report & Full Ablation Study |
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| This repository contains NLP models trained and evaluated by Wikilangs, specifically on **Chamorro** Wikipedia data. |
| We analyze tokenizers, n-gram models, Markov chains, vocabulary statistics, and word embeddings. |
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| ## 📋 Repository Contents |
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| ### Models & Assets |
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| - Tokenizers (8k, 16k, 32k, 64k) |
| - N-gram models (2, 3, 4, 5-gram) |
| - Markov chains (context of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) |
| - Subword N-gram and Markov chains |
| - Embeddings in various sizes and dimensions (aligned and unaligned) |
| - Language Vocabulary |
| - Language Statistics |
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| ### Analysis and Evaluation |
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| - [1. Tokenizer Evaluation](#1-tokenizer-evaluation) |
| - [2. N-gram Model Evaluation](#2-n-gram-model-evaluation) |
| - [3. Markov Chain Evaluation](#3-markov-chain-evaluation) |
| - [4. Vocabulary Analysis](#4-vocabulary-analysis) |
| - [5. Word Embeddings Evaluation](#5-word-embeddings-evaluation) |
| - [6. Morphological Analysis (Experimental)](#6--morphological-analysis-experimental) |
| - [7. Summary & Recommendations](#7-summary--recommendations) |
| - [Metrics Glossary](#appendix-metrics-glossary--interpretation-guide) |
| - [Visualizations Index](#visualizations-index) |
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| ## 1. Tokenizer Evaluation |
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| ### Results |
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| | Vocab Size | Compression | Avg Token Len | UNK Rate | Total Tokens | |
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| | **8k** | 3.977x | 3.99 | 0.0998% | 38,069 | |
| | **16k** | 4.248x 🏆 | 4.26 | 0.1066% | 35,644 | |
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| ### Tokenization Examples |
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| Below are sample sentences tokenized with each vocabulary size: |
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| **Sample 1:** `+Afghanistan 125px Anthem: Millī سرود 300px Afghanistan capitat Kabul. Guåha na ...` |
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| | Vocab | Tokens | Count | |
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| | 8k | `▁+ af ghanistan ▁ 1 2 5 px ▁anthem : ... (+21 more)` | 31 | |
| | 16k | `▁+ afghanistan ▁ 1 2 5 px ▁anthem : ▁millī ... (+20 more)` | 30 | |
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| **Sample 2:** `Cartersville, nasong-song gi Estados Unidos. Guåha 19,731 na tataogues na popula...` |
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| | Vocab | Tokens | Count | |
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| | 8k | `▁carters ville , ▁nasong - song ▁gi ▁estados ▁unidos . ... (+18 more)` | 28 | |
| | 16k | `▁cartersville , ▁nasong - song ▁gi ▁estados ▁unidos . ▁guåha ... (+17 more)` | 27 | |
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| **Sample 3:** `Waleska, nasong-song gi Estados Unidos. Guåha 644 na tataogues na populasion i s...` |
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| | Vocab | Tokens | Count | |
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| | 8k | `▁wa les ka , ▁nasong - song ▁gi ▁estados ▁unidos ... (+16 more)` | 26 | |
| | 16k | `▁waleska , ▁nasong - song ▁gi ▁estados ▁unidos . ▁guåha ... (+14 more)` | 24 | |
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| ### Key Findings |
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| - **Best Compression:** 16k achieves 4.248x compression |
| - **Lowest UNK Rate:** 8k with 0.0998% unknown tokens |
| - **Trade-off:** Larger vocabularies improve compression but increase model size |
| - **Recommendation:** 32k vocabulary provides optimal balance for production use |
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| ## 2. N-gram Model Evaluation |
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| ### Results |
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| | N-gram | Variant | Perplexity | Entropy | Unique N-grams | Top-100 Coverage | Top-1000 Coverage | |
| |--------|---------|------------|---------|----------------|------------------|-------------------| |
| | **2-gram** | Word | 178 | 7.48 | 491 | 68.4% | 100.0% | |
| | **2-gram** | Subword | 227 | 7.83 | 866 | 71.1% | 100.0% | |
| | **3-gram** | Word | 133 | 7.06 | 577 | 70.8% | 100.0% | |
| | **3-gram** | Subword | 1,279 | 10.32 | 4,533 | 36.5% | 79.7% | |
| | **4-gram** | Word | 156 | 7.29 | 834 | 66.8% | 100.0% | |
| | **4-gram** | Subword | 3,664 | 11.84 | 12,412 | 26.2% | 57.0% | |
| | **5-gram** | Word | 102 🏆 | 6.67 | 583 | 72.6% | 100.0% | |
| | **5-gram** | Subword | 5,287 | 12.37 | 16,015 | 24.4% | 49.4% | |
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| ### Top 5 N-grams by Size |
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| **2-grams (Word):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `i sengsong` | 364 | |
| | 2 | `nu i` | 329 | |
| | 3 | `i senso` | 310 | |
| | 4 | `na populasion` | 309 | |
| | 5 | `populasion i` | 308 | |
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| **3-grams (Word):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `nu i senso` | 308 | |
| | 2 | `na populasion i` | 304 | |
| | 3 | `na tataogues na` | 304 | |
| | 4 | `tataogues na populasion` | 304 | |
| | 5 | `i sengsong nu` | 299 | |
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| **4-grams (Word):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `na tataogues na populasion` | 304 | |
| | 2 | `tataogues na populasion i` | 303 | |
| | 3 | `sengsong nu i senso` | 299 | |
| | 4 | `i sengsong nu i` | 299 | |
| | 5 | `populasion i sengsong nu` | 299 | |
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| **5-grams (Word):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `na tataogues na populasion i` | 303 | |
| | 2 | `populasion i sengsong nu i` | 299 | |
| | 3 | `i sengsong nu i senso` | 299 | |
| | 4 | `na populasion i sengsong nu` | 299 | |
| | 5 | `tataogues na populasion i sengsong` | 298 | |
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| **2-grams (Subword):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `a _` | 4,908 | |
| | 2 | `i _` | 4,194 | |
| | 3 | `n a` | 2,916 | |
| | 4 | `a n` | 2,801 | |
| | 5 | `_ i` | 2,765 | |
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| **3-grams (Subword):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `_ i _` | 2,248 | |
| | 2 | `_ n a` | 1,823 | |
| | 3 | `n a _` | 1,562 | |
| | 4 | `_ g i` | 1,298 | |
| | 5 | `_ m a` | 1,144 | |
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| **4-grams (Subword):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `_ n a _` | 1,357 | |
| | 2 | `_ g i _` | 959 | |
| | 3 | `s o n g` | 952 | |
| | 4 | `_ i _ s` | 793 | |
| | 5 | `o n g _` | 758 | |
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| **5-grams (Subword):** |
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| | Rank | N-gram | Count | |
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| | 1 | `_ i _ s e` | 690 | |
| | 2 | `i _ s e n` | 687 | |
| | 3 | `s o n g _` | 653 | |
| | 4 | `_ u n i d` | 463 | |
| | 5 | `u n i d o` | 448 | |
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| ### Key Findings |
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| - **Best Perplexity:** 5-gram (word) with 102 |
| - **Entropy Trend:** Decreases with larger n-grams (more predictable) |
| - **Coverage:** Top-1000 patterns cover ~49% of corpus |
| - **Recommendation:** 4-gram or 5-gram for best predictive performance |
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| ## 3. Markov Chain Evaluation |
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| ### Results |
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| | Context | Variant | Avg Entropy | Perplexity | Branching Factor | Unique Contexts | Predictability | |
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| | **1** | Word | 0.4903 | 1.405 | 2.61 | 5,477 | 51.0% | |
| | **1** | Subword | 1.0984 | 2.141 | 7.88 | 223 | 0.0% | |
| | **2** | Word | 0.1693 | 1.125 | 1.32 | 14,138 | 83.1% | |
| | **2** | Subword | 1.1342 | 2.195 | 5.32 | 1,755 | 0.0% | |
| | **3** | Word | 0.0592 | 1.042 | 1.09 | 18,443 | 94.1% | |
| | **3** | Subword | 0.7400 | 1.670 | 2.81 | 9,321 | 26.0% | |
| | **4** | Word | 0.0211 🏆 | 1.015 | 1.03 | 19,853 | 97.9% | |
| | **4** | Subword | 0.3920 | 1.312 | 1.72 | 26,122 | 60.8% | |
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| ### Generated Text Samples (Word-based) |
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| Below are text samples generated from each word-based Markov chain model: |
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| 1. `i saddok segua ya siha gi i mayot maelihi gobietna i mundo ma li e società` |
| 2. `na populasion i senso unidos guåha 296 na agronomia i senso bibliografia riferensia horst lehne and` |
| 3. `gi i sengsong nu i patgon siha ma usa ginen i dos gi islan sumatra pekanbaru` |
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| **Context Size 2:** |
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| 1. `i sengsong nu i senso unidos` |
| 2. `nu i senso para i fondo gaige hålom hånom hao kalan guihan gue gi iya estados unidos` |
| 3. `na populasion i sengsong nu i senso unidos` |
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| **Context Size 3:** |
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| 1. `na tataogues na populasion i sengsong nu i senso unidos` |
| 2. `na populasion i sengsong nu i senso website sanhiyong siha rome` |
| 3. `tataogues na populasion i sengsong nu i senso yeet website sanhiyong siha commons coronel fabriciano` |
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| **Context Size 4:** |
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| 1. `na tataogues na populasion i sengsong nu i senso unidos` |
| 2. `tataogues na populasion i sengsong nu i senso unidos` |
| 3. `na populasion i sengsong nu i senso unidos` |
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| ### Generated Text Samples (Subword-based) |
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| Below are text samples generated from each subword-based Markov chain model: |
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| **Context Size 1:** |
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| 1. `_yia_a_mesotinio` |
| 2. `a_dorn._ikug._s_` |
| 3. `nusot_fai_i_i_gs` |
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| **Context Size 2:** |
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| 1. `a_para_ediu_nasto` |
| 2. `i_me":_ki,_vícite` |
| 3. `na'i_achamane_pås` |
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| **Context Size 3:** |
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| 1. `_i_semak_senggen_c` |
| 2. `_na_pat_gi_wikike'` |
| 3. `na_taogues_na_gi_k` |
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| **Context Size 4:** |
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| 1. `_na_populasion_yan_` |
| 2. `_gi_para_u_matungo'` |
| 3. `song_nu_i_sengsong_` |
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| ### Key Findings |
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| - **Best Predictability:** Context-4 (word) with 97.9% predictability |
| - **Branching Factor:** Decreases with context size (more deterministic) |
| - **Memory Trade-off:** Larger contexts require more storage (26,122 contexts) |
| - **Recommendation:** Context-3 or Context-4 for text generation |
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| ## 4. Vocabulary Analysis |
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| ### Statistics |
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| | Metric | Value | |
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| | Vocabulary Size | 1,919 | |
| | Total Tokens | 22,562 | |
| | Mean Frequency | 11.76 | |
| | Median Frequency | 3 | |
| | Frequency Std Dev | 73.53 | |
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| ### Most Common Words |
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| | Rank | Word | Frequency | |
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| | 1 | i | 2,319 | |
| | 2 | na | 1,511 | |
| | 3 | gi | 974 | |
| | 4 | unidos | 448 | |
| | 5 | yan | 436 | |
| | 6 | sengsong | 370 | |
| | 7 | guåha | 356 | |
| | 8 | nu | 335 | |
| | 9 | ni | 334 | |
| | 10 | populasion | 331 | |
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| ### Least Common Words (from vocabulary) |
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| | Rank | Word | Frequency | |
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| | 1 | säger | 2 | |
| | 2 | ett | 2 | |
| | 3 | så | 2 | |
| | 4 | du | 2 | |
| | 5 | skate | 2 | |
| | 6 | med | 2 | |
| | 7 | smaskiga | 2 | |
| | 8 | löken | 2 | |
| | 9 | tychy | 2 | |
| | 10 | museon | 2 | |
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| ### Zipf's Law Analysis |
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| | Metric | Value | |
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| | Zipf Coefficient | 0.9547 | |
| | R² (Goodness of Fit) | 0.986088 | |
| | Adherence Quality | **excellent** | |
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| ### Coverage Analysis |
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| | Top N Words | Coverage | |
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| | Top 100 | 63.2% | |
| | Top 1,000 | 91.3% | |
| | Top 5,000 | 0.0% | |
| | Top 10,000 | 0.0% | |
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| ### Key Findings |
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| - **Zipf Compliance:** R²=0.9861 indicates excellent adherence to Zipf's law |
| - **High Frequency Dominance:** Top 100 words cover 63.2% of corpus |
| - **Long Tail:** -8,081 words needed for remaining 100.0% coverage |
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| ## 5. Word Embeddings Evaluation |
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| ### 5.1 Cross-Lingual Alignment |
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| ### 5.2 Model Comparison |
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| | Model | Dimension | Isotropy | Semantic Density | Alignment R@1 | Alignment R@10 | |
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| | **mono_32d** | 32 | 0.0563 🏆 | 0.6662 | N/A | N/A | |
| | **mono_64d** | 64 | 0.0067 | 0.8730 | N/A | N/A | |
| | **mono_128d** | 128 | 0.0017 | 0.8734 | N/A | N/A | |
| | **aligned_32d** | 32 | 0.0563 | 0.6862 | 0.0332 | 0.1848 | |
| | **aligned_64d** | 64 | 0.0067 | 0.8793 | 0.0095 | 0.1090 | |
| | **aligned_128d** | 128 | 0.0017 | 0.8561 | 0.0047 | 0.0853 | |
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| ### Key Findings |
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| - **Best Isotropy:** mono_32d with 0.0563 (more uniform distribution) |
| - **Semantic Density:** Average pairwise similarity of 0.8057. Lower values indicate better semantic separation. |
| - **Alignment Quality:** Aligned models achieve up to 3.3% R@1 in cross-lingual retrieval. |
| - **Recommendation:** 128d aligned for best cross-lingual performance |
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| ## 6. Morphological Analysis (Experimental) |
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| This section presents an automated morphological analysis derived from the statistical divergence between word-level and subword-level models. By analyzing where subword predictability spikes and where word-level coverage fails, we can infer linguistic structures without supervised data. |
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| ### 6.1 Productivity & Complexity |
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| | Metric | Value | Interpretation | Recommendation | |
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| | Productivity Index | **3.506** | High morphological productivity | Reliable analysis | |
| | Idiomaticity Gap | **1.025** | High formulaic/idiomatic content | - | |
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| ### 6.2 Affix Inventory (Productive Units) |
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| These are the most productive prefixes and suffixes identified by sampling the vocabulary for global substitutability patterns. A unit is considered an affix if stripping it leaves a valid stem that appears in other contexts. |
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| #### Productive Prefixes |
| | Prefix | Examples | |
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| | `-ma` | manamerikanu, maisang, manmafa | |
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| #### Productive Suffixes |
| | Suffix | Examples | |
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| | `-a` | sina, finta, nangga | |
| | `-n` | ayman, guguan, direchon | |
| | `-on` | direchon, mision, museon | |
| | `-an` | ayman, guguan, geran | |
| | `-ia` | iglesia, cecilia, diktionaria | |
| | `-ion` | mision, administration, nasion | |
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| ### 6.3 Bound Stems (Lexical Roots) |
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| Bound stems are high-frequency subword units that are semantically cohesive but rarely appear as standalone words. These often correspond to the 'core' of a word that requires inflection or derivation to be valid. |
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| ### 6.4 Affix Compatibility (Co-occurrence) |
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| This table shows which prefixes and suffixes most frequently co-occur on the same stems, revealing the 'stacking' rules of the language's morphology. |
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| | Prefix | Suffix | Frequency | Examples | |
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| | `-ma` | `-a` | 17 words | manmafa, mafana | |
| | `-ma` | `-n` | 13 words | mangginen, manmatutuhon | |
| | `-ma` | `-an` | 6 words | masasangan, maneran | |
| | `-ma` | `-on` | 4 words | manmatutuhon, matutuhon | |
| | `-ma` | `-ia` | 1 words | malaysia, maria | |
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| ### 6.5 Recursive Morpheme Segmentation |
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| Using **Recursive Hierarchical Substitutability**, we decompose complex words into their constituent morphemes. This approach handles nested affixes (e.g., `prefix-prefix-root-suffix`). |
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| | Word | Suggested Split | Confidence | Stem | |
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| | makonsidera | **`ma-konsidera`** | 4.5 | `konsidera` | |
| | manmatutuhon | **`ma-nmatutuh-on`** | 3.0 | `nmatutuh` | |
| | matutuhon | **`ma-tutuh-on`** | 3.0 | `tutuh` | |
| | masasangan | **`ma-sasang-an`** | 3.0 | `sasang` | |
| | pennsylvania | **`pennsylv-an-ia`** | 3.0 | `pennsylv` | |
| | manofisinan | **`ma-nofisin-an`** | 3.0 | `nofisin` | |
| | manguayan | **`ma-nguay-an`** | 3.0 | `nguay` | |
| | machulijan | **`ma-chulij-an`** | 3.0 | `chulij` | |
| | manamerikanu | **`ma-namerikanu`** | 1.5 | `namerikanu` | |
| | diktionaria | **`diktionar-ia`** | 1.5 | `diktionar` | |
| | administration | **`administrat-ion`** | 1.5 | `administrat` | |
| | misionarion | **`misionar-ion`** | 1.5 | `misionar` | |
| | mangginen | **`ma-ngginen`** | 1.5 | `ngginen` | |
| | toneladan | **`tonelad-an`** | 1.5 | `tonelad` | |
| | wikimedia | **`wikimed-ia`** | 1.5 | `wikimed` | |
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| ### 6.6 Linguistic Interpretation |
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| > **Automated Insight:** |
| The language Chamorro shows high morphological productivity. The subword models are significantly more efficient than word models, suggesting a rich system of affixation or compounding. |
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| > **Note on Idiomaticity:** The high Idiomaticity Gap suggests a large number of frequent multi-word expressions or formulaic sequences that are statistically distinct from their component parts. |
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| ## 7. Summary & Recommendations |
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| ### Production Recommendations |
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| | Component | Recommended | Rationale | |
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| | Tokenizer | **16k BPE** | Best compression (4.25x) | |
| | N-gram | **5-gram** | Lowest perplexity (102) | |
| | Markov | **Context-4** | Highest predictability (97.9%) | |
| | Embeddings | **100d** | Balanced semantic capture and isotropy | |
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| ## Appendix: Metrics Glossary & Interpretation Guide |
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| This section provides definitions, intuitions, and guidance for interpreting the metrics used throughout this report. |
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| ### Tokenizer Metrics |
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| **Compression Ratio** |
| > *Definition:* The ratio of characters to tokens (chars/token). Measures how efficiently the tokenizer represents text. |
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| > *Intuition:* Higher compression means fewer tokens needed to represent the same text, reducing sequence lengths for downstream models. A 3x compression means ~3 characters per token on average. |
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| > *What to seek:* Higher is generally better for efficiency, but extremely high compression may indicate overly aggressive merging that loses morphological information. |
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| **Average Token Length (Fertility)** |
| > *Definition:* Mean number of characters per token produced by the tokenizer. |
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| > *Intuition:* Reflects the granularity of tokenization. Longer tokens capture more context but may struggle with rare words; shorter tokens are more flexible but increase sequence length. |
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| > *What to seek:* Balance between 2-5 characters for most languages. Arabic/morphologically-rich languages may benefit from slightly longer tokens. |
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| **Unknown Token Rate (OOV Rate)** |
| > *Definition:* Percentage of tokens that map to the unknown/UNK token, indicating words the tokenizer cannot represent. |
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| > *Intuition:* Lower OOV means better vocabulary coverage. High OOV indicates the tokenizer encounters many unseen character sequences. |
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| > *What to seek:* Below 1% is excellent; below 5% is acceptable. BPE tokenizers typically achieve very low OOV due to subword fallback. |
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| ### N-gram Model Metrics |
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| **Perplexity** |
| > *Definition:* Measures how "surprised" the model is by test data. Mathematically: 2^(cross-entropy). Lower values indicate better prediction. |
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| > *Intuition:* If perplexity is 100, the model is as uncertain as if choosing uniformly among 100 options at each step. A perplexity of 10 means effectively choosing among 10 equally likely options. |
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| > *What to seek:* Lower is better. Perplexity decreases with larger n-grams (more context). Values vary widely by language and corpus size. |
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| **Entropy** |
| > *Definition:* Average information content (in bits) needed to encode the next token given the context. Related to perplexity: perplexity = 2^entropy. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* High entropy means high uncertainty/randomness; low entropy means predictable patterns. Natural language typically has entropy between 1-4 bits per character. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Lower entropy indicates more predictable text patterns. Entropy should decrease as n-gram size increases. |
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| **Coverage (Top-K)** |
| > *Definition:* Percentage of corpus occurrences explained by the top K most frequent n-grams. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* High coverage with few patterns indicates repetitive/formulaic text; low coverage suggests diverse vocabulary usage. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Depends on use case. For language modeling, moderate coverage (40-60% with top-1000) is typical for natural text. |
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| ### Markov Chain Metrics |
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| **Average Entropy** |
| > *Definition:* Mean entropy across all contexts, measuring average uncertainty in next-word prediction. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* Lower entropy means the model is more confident about what comes next. Context-1 has high entropy (many possible next words); Context-4 has low entropy (few likely continuations). |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Decreasing entropy with larger context sizes. Very low entropy (<0.1) indicates highly deterministic transitions. |
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| **Branching Factor** |
| > *Definition:* Average number of unique next tokens observed for each context. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* High branching = many possible continuations (flexible but uncertain); low branching = few options (predictable but potentially repetitive). |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Branching factor should decrease with context size. Values near 1.0 indicate nearly deterministic chains. |
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| **Predictability** |
| > *Definition:* Derived metric: (1 - normalized_entropy) × 100%. Indicates how deterministic the model's predictions are. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* 100% predictability means the next word is always certain; 0% means completely random. Real text falls between these extremes. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Higher predictability for text generation quality, but too high (>98%) may produce repetitive output. |
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| ### Vocabulary & Zipf's Law Metrics |
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| **Zipf's Coefficient** |
| > *Definition:* The slope of the log-log plot of word frequency vs. rank. Zipf's law predicts this should be approximately -1. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* A coefficient near -1 indicates the corpus follows natural language patterns where a few words are very common and most words are rare. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Values between -0.8 and -1.2 indicate healthy natural language distribution. Deviations may suggest domain-specific or artificial text. |
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| **R² (Coefficient of Determination)** |
| > *Definition:* Measures how well the linear fit explains the frequency-rank relationship. Ranges from 0 to 1. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* R² near 1.0 means the data closely follows Zipf's law; lower values indicate deviation from expected word frequency patterns. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* R² > 0.95 is excellent; > 0.99 indicates near-perfect Zipf adherence typical of large natural corpora. |
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| **Vocabulary Coverage** |
| > *Definition:* Cumulative percentage of corpus tokens accounted for by the top N words. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* Shows how concentrated word usage is. If top-100 words cover 50% of text, the corpus relies heavily on common words. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Top-100 covering 30-50% is typical. Higher coverage indicates more repetitive text; lower suggests richer vocabulary. |
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| ### Word Embedding Metrics |
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| **Isotropy** |
| > *Definition:* Measures how uniformly distributed vectors are in the embedding space. Computed as the ratio of minimum to maximum singular values. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* High isotropy (near 1.0) means vectors spread evenly in all directions; low isotropy means vectors cluster in certain directions, reducing expressiveness. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Higher isotropy generally indicates better-quality embeddings. Values > 0.1 are reasonable; > 0.3 is good. Lower-dimensional embeddings tend to have higher isotropy. |
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| **Average Norm** |
| > *Definition:* Mean magnitude (L2 norm) of word vectors in the embedding space. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* Indicates the typical "length" of vectors. Consistent norms suggest stable training; high variance may indicate some words are undertrained. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Relatively consistent norms across models. The absolute value matters less than consistency (low std deviation). |
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| **Cosine Similarity** |
| > *Definition:* Measures angular similarity between vectors, ranging from -1 (opposite) to 1 (identical direction). |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* Words with similar meanings should have high cosine similarity. This is the standard metric for semantic relatedness in embeddings. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Semantically related words should score > 0.5; unrelated words should be near 0. Synonyms often score > 0.7. |
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| **t-SNE Visualization** |
| > *Definition:* t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding - a dimensionality reduction technique that preserves local structure for visualization. |
| > |
| > *Intuition:* Clusters in t-SNE plots indicate groups of semantically related words. Spread indicates vocabulary diversity; tight clusters suggest semantic coherence. |
| > |
| > *What to seek:* Meaningful clusters (e.g., numbers together, verbs together). Avoid over-interpreting distances - t-SNE preserves local, not global, structure. |
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| ### General Interpretation Guidelines |
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| 1. **Compare within model families:** Metrics are most meaningful when comparing models of the same type (e.g., 8k vs 64k tokenizer). |
| 2. **Consider trade-offs:** Better performance on one metric often comes at the cost of another (e.g., compression vs. OOV rate). |
| 3. **Context matters:** Optimal values depend on downstream tasks. Text generation may prioritize different metrics than classification. |
| 4. **Corpus influence:** All metrics are influenced by corpus characteristics. Wikipedia text differs from social media or literature. |
| 5. **Language-specific patterns:** Morphologically rich languages (like Arabic) may show different optimal ranges than analytic languages. |
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| ### Visualizations Index |
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| | Visualization | Description | |
| |---------------|-------------| |
| | Tokenizer Compression | Compression ratios by vocabulary size | |
| | Tokenizer Fertility | Average token length by vocabulary | |
| | Tokenizer OOV | Unknown token rates | |
| | Tokenizer Total Tokens | Total tokens by vocabulary | |
| | N-gram Perplexity | Perplexity by n-gram size | |
| | N-gram Entropy | Entropy by n-gram size | |
| | N-gram Coverage | Top pattern coverage | |
| | N-gram Unique | Unique n-gram counts | |
| | Markov Entropy | Entropy by context size | |
| | Markov Branching | Branching factor by context | |
| | Markov Contexts | Unique context counts | |
| | Zipf's Law | Frequency-rank distribution with fit | |
| | Vocab Frequency | Word frequency distribution | |
| | Top 20 Words | Most frequent words | |
| | Vocab Coverage | Cumulative coverage curve | |
| | Embedding Isotropy | Vector space uniformity | |
| | Embedding Norms | Vector magnitude distribution | |
| | Embedding Similarity | Word similarity heatmap | |
| | Nearest Neighbors | Similar words for key terms | |
| | t-SNE Words | 2D word embedding visualization | |
| | t-SNE Sentences | 2D sentence embedding visualization | |
| | Position Encoding | Encoding method comparison | |
| | Model Sizes | Storage requirements | |
| | Performance Dashboard | Comprehensive performance overview | |
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| --- |
| ## About This Project |
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| ### Data Source |
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| Models trained on [wikipedia-monthly](https://huggingface.co/datasets/omarkamali/wikipedia-monthly) - a monthly snapshot of Wikipedia articles across 300+ languages. |
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| ### Project |
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| A project by **[Wikilangs](https://wikilangs.org)** - Open-source NLP models for every Wikipedia language. |
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| ### Maintainer |
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| [Omar Kamali](https://omarkamali.com) - [Omneity Labs](https://omneitylabs.com) |
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| ### Citation |
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| If you use these models in your research, please cite: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{wikilangs2025, |
| author = {Kamali, Omar}, |
| title = {Wikilangs: Open NLP Models for Wikipedia Languages}, |
| year = {2025}, |
| doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18073153}, |
| publisher = {Zenodo}, |
| url = {https://huggingface.co/wikilangs} |
| institution = {Omneity Labs} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ### License |
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| MIT License - Free for academic and commercial use. |
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| ### Links |
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| - 🌐 Website: [wikilangs.org](https://wikilangs.org) |
| - 🤗 Models: [huggingface.co/wikilangs](https://huggingface.co/wikilangs) |
| - 📊 Data: [wikipedia-monthly](https://huggingface.co/datasets/omarkamali/wikipedia-monthly) |
| - 👤 Author: [Omar Kamali](https://huggingface.co/omarkamali) |
| - 🤝 Sponsor: [Featherless AI](https://featherless.ai) |
| --- |
| *Generated by Wikilangs Models Pipeline* |
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| *Report Date: 2026-01-03 20:18:48* |
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