dict-fr-DELA 2021.8.27

French dictionaries from Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL)

Installation

pip install dict-fr-DELA

French dictionaries from Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL)

DESCRIPTION

This package contains several dictionaries processed from one of those made available by the former Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL), now integrated into Institut Gaspard Monge (IGM) of the Université Gustave Eiffel.

The selected dictionary is the inflected form DELA French dictionary in UTF-16 LE encoding, from March 16, 2006, with 683.824 simple entries for 102.073 different lemmas and 108.436 compounded entries for 83.604 different lemmas.

FILES

All files are installed in Python's /usr/local equivalent, under share/dict.

Original files

Filename	Description
dict-fr-DELA	792.120 entries inflected form DELA French dictionary
dict-fr-DELA-License	Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources

The dict-fr-DELA file has undergone the following transformations:

• conversion from UTF-16 LE to UTF-8
• removal of MS-DOS end of lines
• sort & removal of duplicates

Generated files

Filename	Description
dict-fr-DELA.ascii	French words and compound words list (unaccented)
dict-fr-DELA.unicode	742.889 entries French words and compound words list (accented)
dict-fr-DELA.combined	French words and compound words list (with both accented and unaccented words)
dict-fr-DELA-proper_nouns.ascii	French proper nouns list (unaccented, sometimes compounded)
dict-fr-DELA-proper_nouns.unicode	823 entries French proper nouns list (accented, sometimes compounded)
dict-fr-DELA-proper_nouns.combined	French proper nouns list (with both accented and unaccented words, sometimes compounded)
dict-fr-DELA-common-words.ascii	French common words list (unaccented)
dict-fr-DELA-common-words.unicode	641.759 entries French common words list (accented)
dict-fr-DELA-common-words.combined	French common words list (with both accented and unaccented words)
dict-fr-DELA-common-compound-words.ascii	French common compound words list (unaccented)
dict-fr-DELA-common-compound-words.unicode	100.320 entries French common compound words list (accented)
dict-fr-DELA-common-compound-words.combined	French common compound words list (with both accented and unaccented words)

These generated files went through the following transformations:

• removal of escape backslashes
• removal of lemma and grammatical info from dict-fr-DELA
• lossless conversion of accents for the *-ascii versions
• combination of the *-ascii and *-unicode versions into the *-combined ones (without duplicates)

SEE ALSO

spell(1) like tools, anagram(6), conjuguer(1)

HISTORY

DELA means "Dictionnaire Electronique du LADL" (LADL's electronic dictionaries). These dictionaries were initiated by the lab's founder, Maurice Gross.

This package of data files was originally intended to be used with the PNU project's conjuguer command, as well as many other text processing tools.

I wrote an history of Unix & French dictionaries (in French only), which covers this dictionary and many others.

LICENSE

The original contents, as well as this package, are licensed under the Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources.

AUTHORS

Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL) for the original contents.

Hubert Tournier for the package.