Blog

• 2026-06-26verba in Telegram: Interactive Bot & Automated ChannelIntroducing the official Telegram bot and channel for the verba corpus. Search proverbs by keyword or meaning, browse categories, and share wisdom directly in any chat.
• 2026-06-24Open Data: How to Reuse the CorpusFor researchers and developers — explore download formats, REST API specifications, Croissant dataset metadata, and citation guidelines for the verba corpus.
• 2026-06-24Five Collections: Where the Proverbs Come FromThe history of the five classic sources that comprise the verba corpus, from Ilkevych to Mlodzynskyi, along with notes on digital OCR processing.
• 2026-06-24verba on Hugging Face: Load and Use the CorpusThe verba corpus is now published on Hugging Face as an open dataset. Here is how to load it with the datasets library, pandas, the hf CLI, or DuckDB — and start working with it right away.
• 2026-06-24What is verbaWhat is verba — an open corpus of Ukrainian proverbs and sayings. Learn about its scope, sources, search capabilities, and license.