dict-fr-ABU 2021.8.27

French dictionaries from Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU)

Installation

pip install dict-fr-ABU

French dictionaries from Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU)

DESCRIPTION

This package contains several dictionaries processed from those made available by the Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU) organization before 2003.

FILES

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

Original files

Filename	Description
dict-fr-ABU-cites	39.076 French cities list (accented, with compound words), along with postal zip code
dict-fr-ABU-Header-cites	French cities list (mandatory header)
dict-fr-ABU-dicorth	1.500 French orthographical difficulties by decreasing frequency (with compound words)
dict-fr-ABU-Header-dicorth	French orthographical difficulties (mandatory header)
dict-fr-ABU-mots_communs	255.282 French common words (including female and plural forms, as well as conjugated verbs), along with singular / unconjugated form, and type
dict-fr-ABU-pays	170 countries and regions (with compound words)
dict-fr-ABU-Header-pays	Countries and regions (mandatory header)
dict-fr-ABU-prenoms	12.437 firstnames (unaccented)
dict-fr-ABU-Header-prenoms	Firstnames (mandatory header)
dict-fr-ABU-License	ABU 1.1 License

Generated files

Filename	Description
dict-fr-ABU-cites.ascii	French cities list (unaccented)
dict-fr-ABU-cites.unicode	French cities list (accented)
dict-fr-ABU-cites.combined	French cities list (with both accented and unaccented words)
dict-fr-ABU-mots_communs.ascii	French common words (unaccented)
dict-fr-ABU-mots_communs.combined	French common words (accented)
dict-fr-ABU-mots_communs.unicode	French common words (with both accented and unaccented words)
dict-fr-ABU-pays.ascii	Countries and regions (unaccented)
dict-fr-ABU-pays.combined	Countries and regions (accented)
dict-fr-ABU-pays.unicode	Countries and regions (with both accented and unaccented words)
dict-fr-ABU-prenoms.ascii	Firstnames (unaccented)

These generated files went through the following transformations:

• extraction of the headers in the dict-fr-header-* files above
• conversion from ISO-Latin-1 to UTF-8
• sort
• removal of duplicates
• removal of lemma and grammatical info from dict-fr-ABU-mots_communs
• removal of the zip codes from dict-fr-ABU-cites
• 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)

HISTORY

These data files were originally intended to be used with the PNU project's anagram 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 ABU 1.1 license.

Some source files had mandatory headers that were kept under data/dict-fr-ABU-Header-* rather than in the files themselves, in order to ease direct processing with other tools.

AUTHORS

Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU) for the original contents.

Hubert Tournier for the package.