---
title: Multilingual Dictionary Explorer
sdk: gradio
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
---

# Multilingual Dictionary Explorer

This Space is a Gradio UI for the same lookup logic as
`query_multilingual_space.py`: enter a source language and query word, then get
translations to all other languages using FAISS, CSLS, and optional
bidirectional consistency.

Required artifact files:

- `aligned_all.faiss`
- `all_metadata.jsonl`
- `config.json`

The app does not use `aligned_all.vec`.

## Runtime configuration

By default, the app scans the stage 6 prefix and downloads the newest artifact
folder that contains `config.json`:

`s3://131-component-staging/multilingual-static-word-embeddings/stage-6/`

Set these Hugging Face Space secrets for S3-compatible storage:

- `SE_ACCESS_KEY`
- `SE_SECRET_KEY`
- `SE_HOST_URL`

Optional environment overrides:

- `SPACE_ARTIFACT_S3_URI`: exact artifact folder, for example
  `s3://131-component-staging/multilingual-static-word-embeddings/stage-6/multilingual_dict_20260603_122323`
- `SPACE_ARTIFACT_S3_PREFIX`: prefix to scan for the newest `multilingual_dict_*` or `multilingual_space_*.json`
- `SPACE_DIR`: local artifact folder, useful for local testing
- `ARTIFACT_CACHE_DIR`: local cache directory, default `/tmp/multilingual_space_artifacts`

Defaults for `top_k`, `min_score`, `csls_k`, `candidate_retrieval_k`,
`csls_prefetch_k`, and bidirectional consistency are read from `config.json`.