Wiktionary as a Crowdsourced Lexicon for English Dialects

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arXiv:2608.15641v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper evaluates Wiktionary as an ethically crowdsourced lexicon for English dialects. We took a two-phase approach, providing an in-depth descriptive analysis of the crowdsourced lexicon for 12 national varieties of English before applying the lexicon to geo-referenced, country-level social media language data to examine the real-world performance of this crowdsourced dialect lexicon. We demonstrate that Wiktionary matches or exceeds the c