neynt / define3

offline command-line wiktionary

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Offline command-line dictionary based on Wiktionary, thus supporting basically every word in every language ever.

Usage

• Download the Wiktionary pages-articles.xml.bz2 dump.
  • https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/
• Extract the bz2.
• Run build_definitions_db on the resulting xml file.
• Run define to define words.

TODO

• Detect languages and parts of speech automatically (is currently hardcoded)
• Render Wiki templates
  • This is super hard because many templates eventually resolve to Scribunto scripts, so we have to call into Lua
• Resolve inflections
  • Probably has to be language-specific
• Additional data sets
  • The ones Tangorin uses seem quite nice for Japanese