[XML4Lib] dictionaries

[Ross Singer]

Eric,

There's also Wiktionary:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktionary

Which was seeded with the 1913 Webster's, but might be more machine readable.

-Ross.

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan at nd.edu> wrote:
>
>  Does anybody here know of a freely available English dictionary encoded in
> a well-structured format (tab-delimited, XML, maybe SQL)? I know the
> Webster's 1913 dictionary exists, but all of the formats I've seen are
> delimited by carriage returns and spaces, definitely computer readable but
> not necessarily easily. Once acquired, I want to convert the dictionary into
> XML and index it.
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