Compiling the Apertium-style webdicts

This text documents the compilation process of a set of Apertium-style web dictionaries.

Documentation

(to be rewritten, after Anders’ rewrite)

Old, obsolete documentation

Prerequisites

• Make sure the environment variable GTHOME is defined
• The saxon library must be installed

Both these points should be fullfilled if the advices in Gettings started have been done.

• apertium-dixtools must be installed (git clone https://github.com/apertium/apertium-dixtools.git; cd apertium-dixtools; ant jar; sudo ant install)

Converting

• Go to the dictionary folder: cd $GTHOME/words/dicts
• Choose one of the dictionary folders there (e.g. smenob)
• Run scripts/gtdict2webdict.py smenob (replace smenob with your preferred folder)
• The resulting file will be found in $GTHOME/apps/dicts/apertium_dict/dics/sme-nob-lr-trie.xml (sme and nob will be different for other language pairs)

Converting the webdicts on the UiT server (for Tromsø employees)

Read this documentation