Wiwordik - Machine-readable Wiktionary

Dictionary. A visual interface to the parsed English Wiktionary and Russian Wiktionary databases.

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• Visual interface to Russian Wiktionary (94 MB).
• Visual interface to English Wiktionary (305 MB, slow loading only first time - 45 min, Java Web Start will install the application locally).

If you want to install from the command line, then:

javaws -import http://wikokit.googlecode.com/files/wiwordik-ru.jnlp
javaws -viewer

or English Wiktionary:

javaws -import http://wikokit.googlecode.com/files/wiwordik-en.jnlp
javaws -viewer

Description

Wiwordik dictionary:

Contains:

1. word's language and part of speech
2. meanings / definitions
3. semantic relations
4. translations

Supports (see release_notes.txt):

• words filtering by language code (e.g. de, fr)
• wildcard characters: the asterisk sign (*) matches zero or more characters, and question mark (?) a single character
• list of words only with meanings and / or semantic relations (use checkboxes)

After installation you can find the parsed Wiktionary database in SQLite format on your computer in the folder: C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME\.wiwordik\

Machine-readable Wiktionary framework:

See also

• magnetowordik Android word game based on data extracted from the English Wiktionary.

Statistics

The machine-readable dictionary database statistics:

• English Wiktionary: total, semantic relations, translations, part of speech
• Russian Wiktionary: total, semantic relations, translations, part of speech, quote (languages & sources, authors with clusters, other authors, years)

Project structure

Wiki tool kit (wikokit) contains several projects related to wiki

./common_wiki - common (low-level) functions to handle data of Wikipedia and Wiktionary in MySQL database,

./common_wiki_jdbc - functions to handle data of Wiktionary in MySQL and SQLite databases (JDBC, Java SE) (depends on common_wiki.jar).

./android/common_wiki_alink - Eclipse copy (source link) of ./common_wiki (NetBeans)

./android/common_wiki_android - functions for access to Wiktionary in Android SQLite version of database (depends on common_wiki.jar).

./android/magnetowordik - Android word game (Wiktionary thesaurus).

./hits_wiki - API for access to Wikipedia in MySQL database, algorithms to search synonyms in Wikipedia (depends on jcfd.jar, common_wiki.jar).

./TGWikiBrowser - visual browser to search for synonyms in local or remote Wikipedia (depends on hits_wiki.jar and common_wiki.jar)

./wikidf - Wiki Index Database (list of lemmas and links to wiki pages, which contain these lemmas).

./wikt_parser - Wiktionary parser creates a MySQL database (like WordNet) from an Wiktionary MySQL dump file. The project goal is to convert Wiktionary articles to machine readable format. (It depends on common_wiki, common_wiki_jdbc)

./wiwordik - Visualization of parsed Wiktionary database. wiki + word = wiwordik.

The code of previous project Synarcher are used in wikokit.

Further reading

In English

• F. Lin, A. Krizhanovsky. Multilingual ontology matching based on Wiktionary data accessible via SPARQL endpoint // In: Proceedings of the 13th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries RCDL’2011. October 19-22, Voronezh, Russia. – pp. 19-26. link2
• A. A. Krizhanovsky. Transformation of Wiktionary entry structure into tables and relations in a relational database schema. Preprint. 2010.
• A. A. Krizhanovsky. The comparison of Wiktionary thesauri transformed into the machine-readable format. Preprint. 2010.
• A. A. Krizhanovsky, F. Lin. Related terms search based on WordNet / Wiktionary and its application in Ontology Matching // In: Proceedings of the 11th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries RCDL’2009. September 17-21, Petrozavodsk, Russia. – pp. 363-369.

In Russian

• Крижановский А. Количественный анализ лексики английского языка в викисловарях и Wordnet // Труды СПИИРАН. 2011. Вып. 19. С. 87–101. (PDF).
• Крижановский А. Оценка использования корпусов и электронных библиотек в Русском Викисловаре // Труды международной конференции «Корпусная лингвистика–2011». – СПб.: С.-Петербургский гос. университет, Филологический факультет, 2011, 348 с. – C. 217—222. ISBN 978-5-8465-0005-5 (PDF, слайды).
• Крижановский А. Преобразование структуры словарной статьи Викисловаря в таблицы и отношения реляционной базы данных. Препринт. 2010.
• Крижановский А. Сравнение тезаурусов Русского и Английского Викисловарей, преобразованных в машинно-читаемый формат. Препринт. 2010.
• Крижановский А. Построение машинно-читаемого словаря на основе Русского Викисловаря. Презентация. Видео // Семинар: Natural Language Processing, 20 марта 2010, Санкт-Петербург.
• Крижановский А. Машинная обработка Русского Викисловаря // Вики-конференция 2009. 24—25 октября, Санкт-Петербург.

See also

• Java Wiktionary Library (JWKTL)
• English Wiktionary parser in Java (or here) by Joel Korhonen

License

This program is multi-licensed and may be used under the terms of any of the following licenses:

• EPL, Eclipse Public License, V1.0 or later, http://www.eclipse.org/legal
• LGPL, GNU Lesser General Public License, V2.1 or later, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
• GPL, GNU General Public License, V2 or later, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
• AL, Apache License, V2.0 or later, http://www.apache.org/licenses
• BSD, New BSD License, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license