Open source English-Hebrew dictionary

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Thursday 07 October 2010 09:17:14 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:58:01AM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> > Thanks for the input.
> > 
> > Two inputs:
> > 
> > 1) Babylon's dictionary files are not free or opensource (as far as I
> > know). So distributing them might not be legal.
> 
> Indeed. But back then they were freely-downloadable from their site,
> so if you manage to find one, I do not think it's a big difference
> if you download it now or have downloaded it then from them. They moved
> to a new format a long time ago and deleted all the old files.
> 
> Note IANAL.
> 
> > 2) Google translate does not replace a dictionary, which defines the word
> > exactly, when it's a noun, verb or otherwise, include usage examples,
> > etc.
> 
> Indeed. For this I use google dictionary. And sometimes Reuven Alkalay's
> paper dictionary... If it would have been sold on CDs, I am pretty certain
> I'd buy one.
> 
> Wiktionary is also very useful. It has very little English-Hebrew material,
> but more stuff in other languages, and I also think that if you decide to
> donate some time (as you implied you might do), this is probably the place
> to do this.

As Amir Aharoni noted in his presentation, the problem with the Wiktionaries 
is that their format is not free-form instead of structured as needed by a 
dictionary. There's an alternative dictionary project called OmegaWiki, which 
is more structured:

http://www.omegawiki.org/

It is available under the same licensing as the Wikimedia project, which 
allows for cross-polination between it and the Wiktionaries.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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