dict-fr-AU-DELA 2021.9.9

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

Installation

pip install dict-fr-AU-DELA

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

DESCRIPTION

Starting from the original inflected form DELA French dictionary, provided by the former Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL), now integrated into Institut Gaspard Monge (IGM) of the Université Gustave Eiffel, this repository contains:

• modified dictionary data, publicly editable here;
• a Python package gathering the results for exploitation by other tools.

The selected original 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-AU-DELA-License	Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources

Generated files

Filename	Description
dict-fr-AU-DELA	Modified inflected form DELA French dictionary in UTF-8 encoding and Unix-style end of lines
dict-fr-AU-DELA.ascii	French words and compound words list (unaccented)
dict-fr-AU-DELA.unicode	742.889 entries French words and compound words list (accented)
dict-fr-AU-DELA.combined	French words and compound words list (with both accented and unaccented words)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-proper_nouns.ascii	French proper nouns list (unaccented, sometimes compounded)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-proper_nouns.unicode	823 entries French proper nouns list (accented, sometimes compounded)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-proper_nouns.combined	French proper nouns list (with both accented and unaccented words, sometimes compounded)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-common-words.ascii	French common words list (unaccented)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-common-words.unicode	641.759 entries French common words list (accented)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-common-words.combined	French common words list (with both accented and unaccented words)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-common-compound-words.ascii	French common compound words list (unaccented)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-common-compound-words.unicode	100.320 entries French common compound words list (accented)
dict-fr-AU-DELA-common-compound-words.combined	French common compound words list (with both accented and unaccented words)

Beside manual edits, apart from the dict-fr-AU-DELA file, these generated files went through the following transformations:

• removal of escape backslashes
• removal of lemma and grammatical info from dict-fr-AU-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 modified version of the original DELA dictionary was necessary because our PNU project's conjuguer command made it clear that there were errors in some verb conjugations.

It was naturally called AU-DELA, a pun meaning beyond DELA ("au-delà" in French being translated as "beyond").

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 and some initial changes.

The GitHub community for further changes.