Academic Inquiries, TEI-XML Access & Institutional Research (علمي څېړنې، TEI-XML ډیټا او اداري لاسرسی)

1. Institutional Research Mission (زموږ علمي او اکاډمیک ماموریت)

The Open Pashto Lexicon operates as a public-good computational linguistics infrastructure. Our objective is to empower university researchers, natural language processing (NLP) labs, dialectologists, machine translation engineers, and cultural preservation institutions with machine-readable, peer-reviewed Pashto lexical data.

We actively partner with academic departments and research institutes specializing in:

2. Open-Access Licensing: Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0

To ensure unhindered global access, all lexical definitions, trilingual translations, IPA transcriptions, grammatical paradigms, and syntactic signposts are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0).

3. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI-XML P5) Specification

For computational lexicographers and digital humanities archives, entries are structured in strict conformance with the TEI P5 Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (Dictionary Module tei:entry).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:lang="ps">
  <teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
      <titleStmt>
        <title>Open Pashto Lexicon — TEI Dictionary Entry</title>
        <sponsor>PashtoDictionary.com Editorial Board</sponsor>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Open Pashto Lexicon Consortium</publisher>
        <availability status="free">
          <licence target="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY-4.0</licence>
        </availability>
      </publicationStmt>
      <sourceDesc>
        <p>Digitally compiled from historical and contemporary verified corpora.</p>
      </sourceDesc>
    </fileDesc>
  </teiHeader>
  <text>
    <body>
      <entry xml:id="lemma_kitab_001">
        <form type="lemma" xml:lang="ps">
          <orth type="vocalized">کِتَاب</orth>
          <orth type="plain">کتاب</orth>
          <pron notation="ipa" scheme="SW">/ki.tɑ́b/</pron>
          <pron notation="ipa" scheme="NE">/ki.tɑ́b/</pron>
        </form>
        <gramGrp>
          <pos>noun</pos>
          <gen>masculine</gen>
          <number>singular</number>
          <case>direct</case>
          <subc>inanimate</subc>
        </gramGrp>
        <sense n="1" xml:id="sense_kitab_1">
          <usg type="domain">general</usg>
          <def xml:lang="ps">هغه ليکل شوې يا چاپ شوې پاڼې چې يو ځای تړل شوې وي.</def>
          <cit type="translation" xml:lang="en">
            <quote>book; bound printed volume.</quote>
          </cit>
          <cit type="translation" xml:lang="ur">
            <quote>کتاب؛ جلد شدہ تحریر۔</quote>
          </cit>
          <cit type="example">
            <quote xml:lang="ps">ما يو ګټور کتاب واخیست.</quote>
            <cit type="translation" xml:lang="en">
              <quote>I bought a useful book.</quote>
            </cit>
          </cit>
        </sense>
        <sense n="2" xml:id="sense_kitab_2">
          <usg type="domain">theology</usg>
          <def xml:lang="ps">اسماني صحيفه يا د وحې ټولګه.</def>
          <cit type="translation" xml:lang="en">
            <quote>Scripture; holy revealed codex.</quote>
          </cit>
        </sense>
        <etym type="borrowing" lang="ar">
          <mentioned>كِتَاب</mentioned>
          <gloss>writing, document</gloss>
        </etym>
      </entry>
    </body>
  </text>
</TEI>

4. Public REST & Developer API (د پروګرامونې انټرفېس)

Researchers and engineers can programmatically query the lexicon via an open, rate-limited REST API. Full documentation and code integration snippets are available on our dedicated Academic & API Documentation page.

Base URL: https://api.pashtodictionary.com/v1/

Endpoints:
  GET /entries/:slug           Retrieve full entry object with inflections & audio URLs
  GET /search?q=:query&lang=ps Full-text fuzzy search across all scripts
  GET /paradigms/noun/:slug    Full nominal declension grid (Direct, Oblique, Vocative, Ablative)
  GET /paradigms/verb/:slug    Full verbal conjugation matrix across all aspects & genders
  GET /dialects/isogloss/:root Phonetic realization across the 5 major isogloss regions

5. Bulk Datasets & Computational Corpora

For offline institutional research, batch model evaluation, and LLM tokenizer training, we publish pre-compiled database snapshots:

6. Academic Citation Standards (څنګه حواله ورکړو؟)

If you use the Open Pashto Lexicon in published academic research, thesis dissertations, NLP papers, or digital collections, please cite our project using one of the following formats:

@misc{openpashtolexicon2026,
  author       = {{Open Pashto Lexicon Consortium}},
  title        = {{Pashto Dictionary: The Open Trilingual Lexicon and Morphological Database for Pashto}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pashtodictionary.com}},
  note         = {Version 2.4, Licensed under CC-BY-4.0},
  address      = {Kabul, Peshawar, and London}
}

7. Institutional Inquiries & Academic Contact Form

We invite university departments, linguistic associations, and doctoral researchers to reach out for formal collaborations, data grants, or co-authored research publications:

8. Standards & Data Governance References

Academic communications, TEI-XML serialization, and open data licensing adhere to international computational lexicography protocols:

1. [1] TEI Consortium. (2023). TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Version 4.7.0. TEI Consortium. (Dictionary Module specification for print and digital lexicons).
2. [2] ISO 24613-4:2021. Language resource management — Lexical markup framework (LMF) — Part 4: TEI serialization. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization.
3. [3] CLARIN ERIC. (2022). Standards for Language Resources: Persistent Identifiers and Interoperable Lexical Databases. Utrecht: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure.
4. [4] Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2021). Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
5. [5] Modern Language Association. (2021). MLA Handbook (9th ed.). New York: Modern Language Association of America.