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Today I added a shell script for creating all bilingual dictionaries for a language at once. Execute it in Linux (native or WSL) by typing for example:
sh generate_bilingual_dictionaries.sh pandunia
And it will populate the generated/ folder with lots of simple but nice dictionaries.

I wrote a Python program for writing bilingual dictionaries called write_bilingual_dict.py . It is run from the command line like this:
python3 src/write_bilingual_dict.py <source language code> <target language code>

A practical example:
python3 src/write_bilingual_dict.py pandunia eng

With this ...

This is my solution.

Plant:Glycine max.N An annual plant native to East Asia that is widely cultivated for its fruit. 2027 1095
Ingestion:Glycine max.N The edible seed of the soybean plant which contains a lot of protein. 2028

It's because definitions in ULD are less precise than in Concepticon ...

You can see list of the files you have modified by typing "git status".

In my opinion it is the best order to when the word-class marker is last. I like to group, for example, to clean (v.), clean (adj.) and (the act of) cleaning (n.) in the same semantic category. Apparently it wouldn't be even possible in WordNet!

You are right about consumption. What about ingestion ...

I found another goldmine! Open Multilingual Wordnet is a resource that bundles together wordnets in different languages. It is essentially a collection of files with tab-separated values. Here's a sample from the Indonesian file.


00019613-n ind:def 0 masalah fisik yang nyata
00019613-n ind:lemma ...

I downloaded WordNet files. The file wn3.1.dict.tar.gz includes the newest database. I looked inside it and found out that the file names reveal the concept categories.

Adjective and adverb categories don't have any useful information.


adj.all
adj.pert
adj.ppl
adv.all


WordNet categorizes ...

It's true that PhpBB doesn't store pictures. I think it's because the size of the forum database would get multiplied if pictures or even videos were allowed. (Reddit is similar. It doesn't allow posting images except as links to external sites.) I host this forum myself and my server doesn't have ...

WordNet is a great finding but it's hard to say how useful it is for Panlexia. WordNet is a monolingual English database and it doesn't link to any translations, as you said. However, I found a word list in Concepticon, Borin 2015 1532 , which "contains an additional mapping to the Princeton Wordnet ...

We have finalized over 1500 concept ids now. On the side I have written programs to extract word lists from NELex, ULD and WOLD. Today I tried them out and they are working. I uploaded a handful of dictionaries to the Panlexia repository in GitHub.

I also made a word list for Pandunia by myself. It ...