On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]> skribis: > >> [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > [...] > >>> While I was at it, I wrote a simple test for the dicod service: >>> >>> >>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=985a8599ed742053b52ac85f753c4feb54af93cb >>> >>> It uses the example handler that you gave in the doc, but I think this >>> handler actually does nothing because WordNet does not provide data in >>> the dict.org format AIUI (and its data is under “/dict” anyway.) Is >>> that correct? >>> >>> Do you have another example in mind that could use a dict.org-formatted >>> database? >> >> There are dict.org dict for wordnet and foldoc in Debian. Some >> conversion tool is needed to convert the dict database file. > > OK. Any idea of a DICT database file that we could use as an example > and as a test?
I found there is freedict database file, for example, https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freedict/English%20-%20French/0.1.4/freedict-eng-fra-0.1.4.tar.bz2?r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Ffreedict%2Ffiles%2FEnglish%2520-%2520French%2F0.1.4%2Ffreedict-eng-fra-0.1.4.tar.bz2%2Fdownload&ts=1491090445&use_mirror=excellmedia The home page is http://freedict.org/en/, the github page is http://freedict.org/en/, according to https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/blob/master/eng-fra/COPYING, the database file is released with GPL. Best Regards, Huang, Ying > Thanks, > Ludo’.
