English extraction has been improved slightly. More part of speeches are now extracted (mainly affixes, proverbs, …), Extracted data is now more precisely typed and described, using lexinfo vocabulary, Additionally, All lexical entries are now explicitly typed as LexicalEntry while …
During the French “TALN” workshop, several French researchers asked me if I could add usage examples in the extracted data. This has been done in French, with the addition of a new property (named dbnary:exampleSource) that gives the source of …
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DBnary now contains extraction from 13 wiktionary language editions, with Polish being added today. Polish data is available in the very same format as other languages. The extraction work has been really tedious as the Polish language edition uses a …
This post details the steps necessary to install virtuoso server and bulk load wiktionary data. You’ll have to adapt for you own settings. Download and Compile virtuoso-opensource First, you’ll have to install several development libraries (this is for Debian): sudo …
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A translation is supposed to connect a source word sense to a target word sense. However, current DBnary data connects a lexical entry to a target string. By using available glosses, we are able to connect translations to their source …
With the addition of Bulgarian and Spanish, the DBnary data now contains 12 language editions. More to come we hope !
The Finnish language edition recently used a new way to encode translations. Hence, the extractor’s performance was reduced (as may be seen in the Finnish Stats). The extrator has been adapted to deal with the new translation encoding and extraction …
The Japanese wiktionary language edition is now added to dbnary. It took me quite some time to setup as the Japanese edition is quite inconsistent. As usual the data is available in the Download area. SPARQL access will be available …
Statistics are available in the “Dataset” page. They are currently displaying the number of elements, lexical relations and Translations from/to the extracted languages. These stats are updated daily to reflect new extracted dumps. More to come…
With the introduction of the new Turkish extractor, dbnary now offers 9 language editions.