29 of 798 Wikipedia 1900-1990s neologisms

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by foss22 - opened

Hello Chris,

Did you notice some post-1900 neologisms? (Not todays meaning, I suppose)

bfs /huggingface/hub/datasets--croqaz--vintage-words -size +11M -exec rg -wf <(rg ..... 1900-1990s_neologisms.huniq.tolower.798.txt) {} \;|sort -rnk2|tee 798.5charsAndMore.log|cat -n

     1   "happening": 2636,
     2   "faggot": 1152,
     3   "disco": 591,
     4   "l'auteur": 179,
     5   "outing": 147,
     6   "clade": 112,
     7   "auteur": 109,
     8   "henge": 76,
     9   "trolling": 43,
    10   "based": 41,
    11   "queer": 29,
    12   "strine": 26,
    13   "intermedia": 14,
    14   "radar": 12,
    15   "bouffon": 9,
    16   "mooning": 6,
    17   "lurker": 6,
    18   "phene": 4,
    19   "gabber": 3,
    20   "pinko": 2,
    21   "panspermia": 2,
    22   "mobbing": 2,
    23   "vegan": 1,
    24   "skort": 1,
    25   "nimby": 1,
    26   "kiasu": 1,
    27   "disco'er": 1,
    28   "d'auteur": 1,
    29   "darknet": 1,

Howto:

for f in {00..90..10};do w3m -dump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:19"$f"s_neologisms|rg •|rg -A999 25th|rg -nB999 introductions;echo;done|rg -v 'neologisms|25th|introductions'|cut -d\( -f1|awk -F• '{print $2}'|tee 1900-1990s_neologisms.txt

cut -b2-  1900-1990s_neologisms.txt|rg ..|huniq|awk '{print tolower($0)}'|tee 1900-1990s_neologisms.huniq.tolower.798.txt

for f in {00..90..10};do w3m -dump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:18"$f"s_neologisms|rg •|rg -A999 24th|rg -nB999 introductions;echo;done|rg -v 'neologisms|24th|introductions'|cut -d\( -f1|awk -F• '{print $2}'|tee 1800-1890s_neologisms.txt

cut -b2-  1800-1890s_neologisms.txt|rg ..|huniq|awk '{print tolower($0)}'|tee 1800-1890s_neologisms.huniq.312.txt

Btw, your example:

bfs huggingface/hub/datasets--croqaz--vintage-words -size +11M -exec rg 'internet|chemotherapy' {} \;|sort -rnk2

 "internet": 4147,
 "internet": 2684,
 "internet": 934,
 "internet": 529,
 "internetional": 39,
 "internetional": 31,
 "internets": 18,
 "internets": 16,
 "internetionel": 10,
 "internet's": 9,
 "internetion": 9,
 "internetional": 8,
 "internetted": 7,
 "internetlonal": 7,
 "internetionel": 7,
 "internetted": 5,
 "internet's": 5,
 "internetlonal": 5,
 "internetion": 5,
 "internet's": 4,
 "tinternetreet": 3,
 "internetionel": 3,
 "interneting": 3,
 "internetion": 2,
 "ktdinternet": 1,
 "internetted": 1,

Would like to look closer into the source. Maybe like with "computer" of pre-1900, the word was used with other meanig.

Hi foss,
Oh wow, that's embarrassing for me, since I'm claiming they're all vintage and the examples you're showing are not that...
Did a quick search and I can see "internet" in Gutenberg, words-short and words-long. They are clearly poisoned and it's not great.
Look, even if it's not great, first of all thank you for letting me know and I'll see what I can do, those modern words CANNOT be in the vintage words. Luckily I have some banned words in my FT datasets, eg: https://huggingface.co/datasets/croqaz/vintage-ft-v1/blob/main/banned.txt ;
There are some things that I can't easily do to the original datasets, since there are many GB of texts in there, and also some words did have meaning in the old times like queer, perhaps others. I will try to extract snippets of context around those words to see how they're used and update the JSON files and readme too, but it will take a while :)
Cheers

Yes there are leaks from gutenberg, short-docs, long-docs and english-historical-1800-1875 dataset (from Archive.org):

Word Count (ALL) Verdict Evidence / note
internet 7,175 LEAK (modern) Internet Archive watermark + PG "Internet Archive/American Libraries" URLs. Only tiny # of vintage uses (internet = interval, e.g. short-docs "an Internet which they wished to roll").
email 81,278 mostly LEAK + OCR noise PG "email ccx074@pglaf.org" lines = real modern leak; many other hits are OCR substrings (Albemaile, Tremaile, email=dental enamel, "email pox"=smallpox OCR).
google 549,724 LEAK (watermark) + vintage Real leak = "Google Books/Google Print". Many vintage hits are the old word google/goggle = bulging eyes / to look askance, and "google-google"/"google-guogle-goo" = babble/mimicry onomatopoeia.
online / on-line 24,309 LEAK + vintage/OCR Leak = "Online Distributed Proofreading Team", "www.pgdp.net". Vintage/OCR = "on line/in line", "onliness"=singleness, "online Green" (bowling green).
website 958 LEAK PG transcriber notes ("on the website", "Distributed Proofreaders website", Early Canadiana Online site). Many hits are OCR of surnames (Websier/Websiter/Websitern).
computer 4,243 vintage, NOT a leak Pre-1900 "computer" = a person who computes / a bookkeeper-draftsman; "Cox's Pipe Computer" (1892, a mechanical slide-rule computing device). CC: few "computer users by 2001" PG-eBook metadata hits.
television 7,491 LEAK + OCR noise Real hits from PG performance-rights boilerplate ("stage, cinema, or television…"). Many OCR false hits are surnames (Television(s), "At:Online").
radio 44,752 vintage/OCR, NOT a modern leak Legit ~1899–1900 = morse-code wireless telegraphy / "radio waves" (radiation). 18th-c. ECCO hits are Latin radios = rays. No modern broadcast-radio context found.
robot 6,891 vintage, NOT a modern leak Hits are Korobotchka (Gogol name), robot = medieval corvée/villeinage labour, robotics in a Roget-style thesaurus, Latin names. No Čapek-robot context.
radar 9,232 vintage/OCR, NOT a modern leak Hits are OCR of Gradara (castle name), biradar, gradarius, glad-r (dictionary entries) — none is the 1940s detection acronym.
smog 12,728 vintage/OCR, NOT a modern leak Hits are OCR of cosmogony/cosmography/cosmographical (the "smog" substring), not the 1900s London "smoke+fog" coinage.
byte 8,919 vintage/OCR, NOT a modern leak Hits are OCR of Presbyterian/Presbytery (internal "by..." substrings).
blog 2,181 vintage, NOT a modern leak Hits are the English surnames Blogg/Blogge/Blogs and Weblogger place names. No web-log sense.
tweet 30,727 vintage, NOT a modern leak Pre-1900 tweet = a small bird's note ("Tweet, tweet!", "a single tweet" of a warbler). No Twitter sense.
selfie / laptop 159 / 378 ~0 (absent in sample) No modern use found in the searched sources.
digital 42,841 vintage + few LEAK Vintage = digitalis/digital (foxglove/medicine), interdigital (anatomy). Few leak hits via "Digital & Multimedia Center" / "Digital Library" PG metadata.
cyber 172 vintage, NOT a modern leak Hits are Mecyberna/Mecybernaeans (Greek towns), Cyber (surname/Cibber), Cybernicus (Cyzicus rampart). No cyberspace sense.
hypertext 100 LEAK PG "…resulting from word processing or hypertext software" license boilerplate.
multimedia 50 LEAK PG "Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries".
blog, online, webpage, www, pdf LEAK All traced to embedded PG/internet metadata strings.

Your examples are mostly not leaks:

Word (dict count) #matched Verdict Remark
happening 2636 2125 vintage normal old "happening" (a passage happening, Yesterday happening to be…)
faggot 1152 886 vintage old sense only: "Fire and Faggot" (heretic burning), "vnty the faggot" (bundle of sticks)
disco 591 247 vintage/OCR Latin disco="I learn"; Disco. of Anab. = abbreviation of "Discourse of the Anabaptists"
l'auteur 179 (in auteur) vintage French "l'Auteur" = the author (French-language texts)
outing 147 136 vintage old sense = ousting/ejecting: "outing and banishing", "outing others … from their places"
clade 112 104 vintage/OCR Latin clade = destruction/disaster; also "were clade in sackcloth" (=clad)
auteur 109 127 vintage French "de l'auteur" = of the author (film-director sense absent)
henge 76 60 vintage "Stone-henge" (the Wiltshire monument)
trolling 43 16 vintage old sense = rolling/changing: "trolling and discanning of the Psalmes", "turning & trolling of them" (no internet sense)
based 41 32 vintage/OCR "be a based kindly", "based soe Low?" (OCR/bassed) — not the internet insult
queer 29 26 vintage/OCR "Queer of Heaven", "Heavens Queer" (=quire/choir or strange) — pre-1900 "strange/odd" or OCR
strine 26 25 vintage/OCR old spelling of "strive": "we are to strine against the world"
intermedia 14 14 vintage Latin scholarly: "species intermedia in Logick", "intermedia loca" (=intermediate)
radar 12 3 vintage/OCR Irish/Gaelic text "do labh radar re Maóise" — OCR — no 1940s radar
bouffon 9 8 vintage French "Bouffon" = clown/jester, "Bouffonnerie" (French text)
mooning 6 6 vintage/OCR OCR of mooving/moving: "the mooving of vs to sorrow" rendered mooning — no butt-flashing
lurker 6 4 vintage old word = one who lurks secretly: "this lawlesse Lurker", "as an cruell lurker"
phene 4 2 vintage/OCR Greek name "From Phene, Ripe, and Orchomenus"; garbled incantation — not biology
gabber 3 2 vintage/OCR old "gab"=chatter: "the young Fry Gabber at Samm's Coffee-house"; French gabber=mock
pinko 2 2 vintage/OCR an animal "call'd the Pakeera, and Pinko" — not the Red-sympathiser slur
panspermia 2 2 vintage legit OLD philosophical use: Ancients called water "Panspermia" (seed theory) — pre-1900 concept
mobbing 2 2 vintage old sense = mob-assault: "mobbing the Ministers", "Mobbing the De-Wits" — not workplace bullying
vegan 1 1 vintage/OCR OCR of "began": "and vegan to speake with other tounges"
skort 1 1 vintage/OCR OCR of "short": "Nothing skort of the Inspiration"
nimby 1 1 vintage/OCR old spelling "nimby" = nimbly/quickly: "she doth so nimby skip"
kiasu 1 1 vintage/OCR a person's name "Kiasu, whom he appointed for their General" — not the Singaporean term
darknet 1 1 vintage old word = darkness: "expounding through the darknet of soules" — not the Tor network
disco'er 1 0* vintage/OCR apostrophe form; folds into disco/OCR fragments — no club-dance sense
d'auteur 1 0* vintage French "d'auteur" = of the author (folds into auteur)

For now, this is just a report. I will remove some of the offending words from the dictionaries.

Done, removed the real modern words from the dictionaries.
Thank you for reporting this.
Don't close the discussion, it could be useful for other people.

bigrams/english-historical-1800-1875-bigrams.json.zst|rg -wf banned4rg.list
 "einstein's_theory": 267,
 "lesbian's_grave": 84,
 "einstein's_law": 33,
 "einstein's_formula": 28,
 "digitized_by'google": 18,
 "hitler's_invasion": 17,
 "ussr's_external": 17,
 "einstein's_relativity": 15,
 "einstein's_principle": 13,
 "nato's_partnership": 13,
 "einstein's_general": 12,
 "nato's_integrated": 12,
 "nato's_squadron": 12,

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