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There is a lot of people out there who use Palm handhelds and could benefit from Apertium bilingual dictionaries. |
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There is an opensource application for Palms called [http://pzdbview.sourceforge.net/palmopendic.html PalmOpenDic] that can handle dictionaries. |
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Dictionaries in a rather easy text-like format such as the one used by [http://dict.cc dict.cc] (see [http://www1.dict.cc/translation_file_request.php the file request page of dict.cc]) can be converted with a Java application (for the desktop) inside PalmOpenDic into the Palm database format used by PalmOpenDic. |
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Apertium bilingual dictionaries could easily be converted, using ltexpand, into a dict.cc-like format and then distributed with PalmOpenDic. |
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Mikel has tried to install a the resulting, converted file into his Zire 22 Palm but got a message when using [http://www.jpilot.org/ jpilot] to install ("Instal·lació de DictCC.pdf ha fallat"). This was probably because the file was too large. After converting just a section, it worked nicely. |
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== Related software == |
== Related software == |
Revision as of 05:50, 17 February 2009
Mobile dictionaries for Palm can be generated using the dix2tiny task in apertium-dixtools package.
Requirements
- Apertium DixTools
- PalmOpenDic
- A Palm device
Download and install Apertium DixTools
- See Apertium-DixTools.
Generating dictionaries for PalmOpenDic
$ apertium-dixtools dix2tiny <dix> <lang-pair> <lang-pair-text> <platform> [<filter>]
where:
- dix: an apertium bilingual dictionary (.dix).
- lang-pair: the code for the language pair (es-ca, en-es, etc.)
- lang-pair-text: the name of the language pair (Spanish-Catalan, English-Catalan, etc.)
- platform: in this particular case (dictionaries for Palm), the option must be 'palm'.
- filter: an XML config file with some filtering rules.
Example:
$ apertium-dixtools dix2tiny apertium-en-es.en-es.dix en-es English-Spanish palm config-en-es.xml
This command will generate two files:
en-es-data.cc
en-es-apertium-palm.pdb
. This is the file required for PalmOpenDic.
Find a few examples of .pdb files in the tiny-examples directory.
An example of configuration file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd"> <properties> <comment>Configuration</comment> <!-- force to preserve the following tags --> <entry key="preserveTags">n,adj,adv,vblex</entry> <!-- force to ignore the following tags --> <entry key="ignoreTags">GD,ND,cm</entry> <!-- ignore tags not listed in 'preserveTags' and 'ignoreTags' properties --> <entry key="ignoreNotListedTags">no</entry> <!-- characters to remove --> <entry key="removeCharacters">\\*</entry> <!-- characters to replace with blank --> <entry key="replaceCharactersWithBlank">_</entry> <entry key="rename_n">noun</entry> <entry key="rename_adv">adverb</entry> <entry key="rename_adj">adjective</entry> ... </properties>
Screenshots
Related software
- Apertium TinyLex: a J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) program for mobile devices which looks up dictionary entries.
- PalmOpenDic: PalmOS dictionary application for PalmOS 3.5 or higher. It can be used to view (and search in) dictionaries which are stored on your Palm.
- J-Pilot: a desktop organizer application for PalmOS devices.