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Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:09 am
by London
Hi!

Is it possible to edit the dictionaries? I think the Danish one has some oddities I would like to delete. I can't find any obvious file...

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:27 pm
by cyril
You can't, but you are welcome to contribute to a better danish dictionary ;)

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:10 pm
by London
I would like that! How do I get started?

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:10 am
by cyril
All what is needed is a word list sorted by decreasing frequency of usage. The current list has only 27k words, which is quite small.

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:17 pm
by London
Can I get a copy of that list? Then I will begin by correcting wrongs.

And is there some "normal" way people make these -- i.e. get the words and frequencies?

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:22 pm
by fvs114
Maybe you should try this,this, this or this to get corpus or list of words. 8-)

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:31 am
by London
Those are definitely in another league, containing 22000k words... I'll have a look once I've gotten started.

I would like to add to the current list first, but also remove from it -- it currently contains a lot of annoying entries as many words are suggested both capitalized and not.

Can you supply the current one, Cyril?

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:35 am
by cyril
Here is the current list. However I'm not sure how you can merge it with another one, as the resulting list still has to be sorted by frequency...

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:01 pm
by London
Hey Cyril,

I have now obtained some word lists (thanks fvs114, in the end I contacted someone from one of the places, was redirected, and now I have a good, sorted list!)

How large can the dictionary be?

Re: Can I edit the dictionaries?

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:18 pm
by fvs114
Slovenian dictionary contains 259k words.. Cyril would cut it from bottom (low frequent words) but it wasn't necessary.

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