{"id":1595,"date":"2007-09-02T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2007-10-06T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T09:48:16","slug":"word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> was looking for dictionaries the other day after finding myself impressed by Ubuntu&#8217;s Dictionary program. I found out that it actually uses the gdict set of XML files, and you can find around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dict.org\/links.html\">freedict site<\/a> (you probably need to scroll down: look for Dict Databases (Webster&#8217;s 1913). The dictionary is in an awful XML format though. Sample Perl-code is provided too.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is also where I found the WordNet lexical database for English language: a C# interface can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/opensource.ebswift.com\/WordNet.Net\/\">ebswif&#8217;s<\/a> (GPL). Not cleanly written code, though, but if it strikes you fancy, the source might be with you. (WordNet files are binary files, though).\n<\/p>\n<p>Dictionaries, huh? A good friend of mine had a theory that good programmers generally have a knack for math and language. I always thought there was some truth in that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for dictionaries the other day after finding myself impressed by Ubuntu&#8217;s Dictionary program. I found out that it actually uses the gdict set of XML files, and you can find around the freedict site (you probably need &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1595\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,4],"tags":[88,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}