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pip installdict-fr-AU-DELA

Starting from the originalinflected form DELA French dictionary,provided by the formerLaboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL),now integrated intoInstitut Gaspard Monge (IGM) of theUniversité Gustave Eiffel,this repository contains:

• modified dictionary data, publiclyeditable here;
• a Python package gathering the results for exploitation by other tools.

The selected original dictionary is the inflected form DELA French dictionary in UTF-16 LE encoding,from March 16, 2006, with 683.824 simple entries for 102.073 different lemmas and 108.436 compounded entries for 83.604 different lemmas.

All files are installed in Python's/usr/local equivalent, undershare/dict.

Beside manual edits, apart from thedict-fr-AU-DELA file, these generated files went through the following transformations:

• removal of escape backslashes
• removal of lemma and grammatical info fromdict-fr-AU-DELA
• lossless conversion of accents for the*-ascii versions
• combination of the*-ascii and*-unicode versions into the*-combined ones (without duplicates)

spell(1) like tools,anagram(6),conjuguer(1)

DELA means "Dictionnaire Electronique du LADL" (LADL's electronic dictionaries). These dictionaries were initiated by the lab's founder,Maurice Gross.

This modified version of theoriginal DELA dictionary was necessary because ourPNU project'sconjuguer command made it clear that there were errors in some verb conjugations.

It was naturally called AU-DELA, a pun meaning beyond DELA ("au-delà" in French being translated as "beyond").

I wrote anhistory of Unix & French dictionaries (in French only),which covers this dictionary and many others.

The original contents, as well as this package, are licensed under theLesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources.

Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL) for the original contents.

Hubert Tournier for the package and some initial changes.

The GitHub community for further changes.