Getting bilingual dictionaries from OmegaWiki

You can use the dictools 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 OmegaWiki database.
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!

./dictools get-bil-omegawiki <sl> <tl> <apertium-sl-tl.dix>

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

See also

• How to cross language pairs
• List of available language pairs