Getting bilingual dictionaries from OmegaWiki

You can use the apertium-dixtools script (crossdics package) to get cheap bilingual dictionaries from any language pair available in OmegaWiki database.

Some steps before running the script:

1. download the latest version of lexical data from the OmegaWiki database (see also [1]).
2. install it locally in your computer (some detailed instructions in www.omegawiki.org/Development)
   • the database must be named omegawiki
   • an user omegawiki with no password should have access to the database.
3. Run the following script!

$ apertium-dixtools get-bil-omegawiki <sl> <tl> <apertium-sl-tl.dix>

• sl: source language.
• tl: target language.
• apertium-sl-tl.dix: resulting bilingual dictionary.

Some examples

Some random examples:

• English-Portuguese: apertium-en-pt.dix
• Catalan-German: apertium-ca-de.dix
• Galician-Italian: apertium-gl-it.dix
• ...

See also

• How to cross language pairs

External links

• OmegaWiki development