Hi everyone,
I started on a web based bilingual dictionary based on Wiktionary
which can be found at http://www.wikdict.com . It's still very young,
so expect to find problems. I'm interested in some early feedback, so
please let me know what you think of it.
If you need a specific language pair to judge WikDict, let me know and
I might be able to add it soon.
Karl
Does anyone have an overview over bilingual dictionaries extracted
from Wiktionary? Wiktionary itself isn't very pleasant to use if you
just want to get a word translated into a different language.
I already had a closer look at QuickDic[1] which uses its own
extraction code and compared one of the dictionaries (de-sv) to one I
extracted from dbnary. At a first glance, my primitive query from
dbnary seems to yield better (or at least more) results than the
original dictionary from QuickDic.
Now I am thinking about which relations to use (e.g. should I add
translations for one word to its synonyms?) and how I could provide
additional information like pronunciation which does not seem to fit
into the minimal data model of QuickDic.
So if you have any links to related projects or information that would
be very helpful.
Thanks,
Karl
[1] http://code.google.com/p/quickdic-dictionary/
Hi all,
And first of all thank you for that great news (to me) of an RDF version of wiktionary.
For my first trials, I am willing to retrieve translations of words between French and German.
I did manage to get "random" translations following the SPARQL examples.
But then I tried a more specific search to find translation of Suisse (Switzerland in english), and couldn't find the translation.
I then simplified the query to:
?swordRes rdfs:label "Suisse"@fr .
optional{?swordRes terms:hasTranslation ?twordRes }.
with no result for ?twordRes.
However, I can see many translations on this original page:
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Suisse
And then this also happened with other words I tried, as Valais (a swiss canton).
Maybe I am not familiar enough yet with the ontology ?
By the way, I can't access: http://wiktionary.dbpedia.org/page/dog which gives me:
Execution of "/DAV/VAD/dbpedia/description.vsp" failed.SQL Error: 37000 SQ074: Line 272: syntax error at ')' before 'order'
thank you for your help
Fabian