On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 13:55 -0400, Youcef Rahal wrote:
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> From: Ing. Zdenek Broz <zdenek dot broz at gmail dot com>
> Date: Jun 21, 2006 8:17 PM
> Subject: Arabic and the Universal dictionary
> To: contact at arabeyes dot org
>
>
> Hello
>
> We are working on a system called the Universal dictionary. It is based
> on English definitions of wordnet thesaurus and beside English the
> system contains more than 40 world languages. Arabic is very important
> language but we do not have enough input dictionaries to add Arabic into
> the system. We only have your English-Arabic dictionary. To add Arabic
> entries automatically we would need German-Arabic and for example
> Spanish-Arabic dictionaries so we could eliminate the ambiguity of
> English words. Our system is pretty similar to Global wordnet grid. At
> http://www.globalwordnet.org/gwa/wordnet_table.htm it is said that
> Christiane Fellbaum is already working on entries for Arabic. Do you
> know this person? I have sent him a mail but got no answer. If I would
> have the file he is creating everyone would have more than 40 Arabic
> dictionaries.
>
Don't you guys think this is really helpful?
أنا صراحة أعتقد ذلك
> To understand how our Universal dictionary works please take a look at
> http://www.dicts.info
>
> Our users already suggested hundreds of Arabic entries for our system
> but the writing from right to left is giving us a hard time -
> http://dicts.info/files/ud/arabic.txt
> We do not understand Arabic so by copying the file blindly into our
> system we could add many mistakes - we cannot afford that - especially
> for Arabic language.
>
> I am sure that if you would help us a bit we would soon be able to add
> thousands of Arabic entries into Universal dictionary - everyone would
> then have large free Arabic dictionaries. With so many languages out
> there we surely need them to understand each other.
>
> So what do you think? Would it be good to have more than 40 free
> dictionaries for Arabic by creating a single file with Arabic words
> assigned to wordnet definitions? If you will help us we will allow you
> to use all newly created Arabic dictionaries in all your projects. Think
> about it Arabic-German, Arabic-Spanish, Arabic-Russian even
> Arabic-Japanese dictionaries would be available - all we need is the one
> file with Arabic words assigned to wordnet definitions.
>
>
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{^_^} Yousef Raffah
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