bbunzeck/mini-klexikon

MiniKlexikon

This dataset represents a full scrape (approx. 270K lexical tokens) of the website MiniKlexikon (Mini Kinder-Lexikon), a German children's Wikipedia that contains texts in simplified German (Einfache Sprache). Texts were collected on Feb 20, 2025.

All texts are licensed under cc-by-sa-4.0.

The individual text files contain only the body text of the individual articles (and sometimes metatextual information, like author names). We did some light cleaning, but otherwise the texts are provided as they were scraped.

Our dump of the regular Klexikon can be found here.

If you use this dataset, please cite the following publication:

@inproceedings{bunzeck-etal-2025-construction,
    title = "Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In {G}erman {B}aby{LM}s?",
    author = "Bunzeck, Bastian  and
      Duran, Daniel  and
      Zarrie{\ss}, Sina",
    editor = "Boleda, Gemma  and
      Roth, Michael",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.conll-1.12/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.conll-1.12",
    pages = "169--186",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-271-8",
}