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WikDict, a web service based on DBnary data

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on March 16, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized

Karl Bartel has created a very simple web service to lookup translation of many languages. The data powering wikDict is provided by DBnary. The service is still preliminary, but I’m quite sure it will improve with the time. Go to …

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Improvement in Russian extractor

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on March 5, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized

Several bug fixes were made on the Russian extractor. Definitions should now be extracted in a more complete way and empty definitions should not be extracted anymore. Translation extraction has also been modified to avoid (rather unfrequent) special cases where …

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French and German morphology is now extracted

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on March 5, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized

Since December 2014, morphological data has been extracted from French and German language edition. This data is currently stored in exhaustive version, meaning that every inflected form may be found in an a lemon:otherForm property. German morphology extraction is still rather preliminar, but French …

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English extraction improved

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on September 22, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized

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 …

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Usage examples are now extracted and attached to word senses

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on July 15, 2014 Posted in Announce

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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The Polish Language Extractor is now online

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on June 28, 2014 Posted in Announce

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 …

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Setting up a virtuoso-opensource server to mirror DBnary data

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on April 16, 2014 Posted in Doc Tagged with virtuoso

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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Translations are now connected to word senses

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on March 10, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized

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 …

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DBnary is now supporting 12 language editions

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on March 10, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized

With the addition of Bulgarian and Spanish, the DBnary data now contains 12 language editions. More to come we hope !

Finnish translation extractor improved

By Gilles Sérasset Posted on November 21, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized

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 …

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