Dan, Thanks. The GUI, IMHO, will be usefull either way, as it can be used as a normal dictionary by anyone, for learning pruposes. Electronic dictionary has one big advantage over books: searching. Especially for language like Arabic and Hebrew, typical case, if you would like to ue a dictionary, you need to look up based on it's roots. If you are a new to the language, then you will have no idea where to begin with. Searching thru this list will be much easier as it will give you it's root immediately, and possible some meaning of it.
Regards. On 5/19/06, Dan Kenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In my opinion, consulting a printed dictionary is perfectly legal, but IANAL. You can download the 28Mb (compressed to 6Mb) generated list from http://ivrix.org.il/projects/arabic/ooo-ar-0.1.zip . Note that it is in iso8859-6, and that each word is annotated with a letter signifying its legal prefixes. Having a gui would be great. In fact, I created something similar for Hebrew verbs. But it would be utterly useless without someone that cares for Arabic and free software - to do the actual proofreading. On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:26:52AM +0800, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote: > Dan, > Thanks for clarification. Just curious, how big is the file for the > generated wordlist? I can't generate it yet because I'm working under > XP, so I'm thinking if it is not that big, maybe I would like to > download it instead. > Anyway, I'm thinking, maybe it is a good idea to create a gui that > will make it easier to go thru all the stem words and the generated > word one by one for proofreading. It will show the stem word, the > morphological and grammatical category applied to it, and the list of > generated words. I think that would be easier to proofread. Or how > about if someone compare it with Lane's Arabic lexicon (I don't have a > copy of this)? Will it cause legal issues later? We are just > comparing, not copying. > > Regards. -- Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ 162180901 _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
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