Today, I and my mentor discussed possible ways we can proceed with this project. Since I started with small data and parsed the “1000 most common Nepali words” dataset. Now, my goal is to do background research on Wiktionary, get familiar with the format words are added to Wiktionary, lookup common Nepali words whether the very words exist in Wiktionary. If not, my goal will be to go through history and recent changes that people have made to Nepali Wiktionary. Then, I will work on deciding which format and what content I would like to add to the Nepali Wiktionary. The content may be words, its categorization for parts of speech along with different meaning(s) of that particular word both in Nepali and English, phonetic, example sentences having those words used, etc. Once the content will be decided I will create a template and add that in my personal website.
After that, my task will be to write a press release to request all Computer Science(CS), NLP in Nepali, and linguistics enthusiasts to come together and work following the template and add unlisted Nepali words to Wiktionary.
Nepali NLP Initiative 