English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary

Converted by: Piotr Bański

Edition: 0.1

Size: 20984 headwords

Published by: FreeDict, 09 November 2009
at: http://freedict.org/

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Notes:

 * Database Status: big enough to be useful


Source(s):

  Full title of the source version: "English-Greek dictionary" Original 
  description: "Copyright: http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/; Version: 
  1.0 [FreeDict clean-up, phase II]" Converted from version 1.0 
  distributed by {the XDXF project}, part of Sourceforge.net.

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  free and for good. It is part of the FreeDict project, 
  http://www.freedict.org. This project aims to make many translating 
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Changelog:

 * 2009-11-09 #bansp:
   Version 0.1, 09 November 2009. Compiler/converter: Piotr Bański

   * Created version 0.1 on the basis of the English-Greek dictionary 
     distributed by the XDXF project 

   * This involved a clean-up of the original and conversion to TEI 
     P5 simplified markup, according to the ideas sketched in a paper 
     entitled "A repository of free lexical resources for African 
     languages: the project and the method" by Piotr Bański and Beata 
     Wójtowicz, accepted for the AfLaT-2009 (Language Technologies for 
     African Languages) workshop, part of the 12th meeting of the European 
     Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). The paper is 
     available from {the ACL web archive}.

   * What follows is a copy of my notes written down during the 
     clean-up stage and placed in the transitory file included in the 
     first distribution of this dictionary (this is not entered in the 
     CVS; sorry about the CDATA and rendering):
                  
This glossary has been apparently put together from two others, using 
different headword conventions, different diacritics and at least in 
part being prepared by non-expert lexicographers. In part, it's a 
phrase book. It also appears to contain some specialized zoological 
terminology.
    
It comes from the XDXF.sourceforge.net project.
    
Changes in the XDXF file (included in the distribution, not in the CVS): 
* some homophones are not disambiguated by means of POS, and some are collapsed into a 
     single entry - I didn't fix such cases.
* braces inside <k> became dtrn/"dom"; inside <ar>: dtrn/"hint"
* threw away over 200 duplicated entries, merged some of them, split a few others, 
    especially around slashes; removed stray diacritics, fixed capitalization (to some 
    extent only)
* introduced <dtrn> instead of brackets or braces (needed a <note>-like element)
* tried to avoid touching equivalents, added Αθήνα to Athens (hmm), threw away 
stuff like <ar><k>burst out into tears</k> ξεσπώ σε δάκρυα, ξεσπώ σε γέλια</ar> 
(there weren't many such cases, mostly of them involved duplicated headwords or 
equivalents; I only fixed those equivalents that I noticed in the process of pruning 
[some!] duplicate headwords)
* the ordering of entries here is changed from the original (I wanted to have 
   identical headwords next to each other, then I resorted); threw away lots of 
   whitespace
* changed "sea sick" into "I am sea-sick", according to the translation - it could 
     be "be sea-sick" as well; in general, there are lots of entries in "I", "be", 
     "a" or "the", etc...; sometimes the only difference is in the handling 
     of compounds ("seasick" vs. "sea-sick" vs. "sea sick")
    
* this dictionary (well, glossary) needs LOTS of lexicographic work still
    
<dtrn> is just an abused element here; according to the XDXF spec, dtrn had the 
@type attribute,  but the DTD (also included) wouldn't allow it, so I added: 
    <!ATTLIST dtrn type CDATA #IMPLIED>  

Values: 
    "hint" for further explanations/examples in Greek,
    "infl" for inflections of the headword (used inconsistently in the source),
    "pos"  (inconsistent) for POS values of headwords in cases that I noticed 
           during the clean-up phase
    "dom" for some domain restrictions, etc., provided in English
    "colloc" for broadly understood collocates of the headword or sense restrictions
    "variant" inconsistent: for spelling variants (instal(l)ment) but also 
           dialectal variants (autumn/fall) and abbreviations 
    "editor" for internal notes
    
    Before the transformation into TEI, it had 20973 entries, some of which were 
    still duplicated, and some of which should be split (e.g. "Norwegian", into 
    adj and noun, etc.). 
     
    The XDXF original had 21237 <ar> elements.
    
    Piotr Bański, November 2009, http://freedict.org/