Open Source Dictionary Downloads

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The following is a list of open source Dictionary software and related resources:

• Dictionaries from project GutenBerg - Click Here to go to a complete list

• http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html  - International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix which supports a large number of European languages.

• The DICT Development Group <http://www.dict.org/>

• A Dictionary Server Protocol RFC 2229 <http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2229.txt> The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.

• MW Open Dictionary - http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/

• The SPECIALIST lexicon is a large syntactic lexicon of biomedical and general English, designed/developed to provide the lexical information needed for the SPECIALIST Natural Language Processing System (NLP) which includes SemRep, MetaMap, the and the Lexical Tools. It is intended to be a general English lexicon that includes many biomedical terms. Coverage includes both commonly occurring English words and biomedical vocabulary. The lexicon entry for each lexical item (word or term) records the syntactic, morphological, and orthographic information needed by the SPECIALIST NLP System. Click here to download Lexicon package, 2006 Release!

• The SPECIALIST spelling resources include two programs GSpell a spelling suggestion tool and BagOwordsPlus a phrase retrieval tool. GSpell uses several word similarity algorithms to suggest correct spellings for misspelled words. Unlike other spelling suggestion programs GSpell treats space as it would any other letter so that GSpell can correct errors in word compounding. GSpell also be used in word similarity tasks that do not involve misspelling. BagOWordsPlus uses the word similarity algorithms of GSpell to perform word similarity based phrase level information retrieval.

  • The SPECIALIST spelling resources

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