pip install dict-fr-DELA

This package contains several dictionaries processed from one of those made available by the former Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL), now integrated into Institut Gaspard Monge (IGM) of the Université Gustave Eiffel.

The selected dictionary is the inflected form DELA French dictionary in UTF-16 LE encoding, from March 16, 2006, with 683.824 simple entries for 102.073 different lemmas and 108.436 compounded entries for 83.604 different lemmas.

All files are installed in Python's /usr/local equivalent, under share/dict.

The dict-fr-DELA file has undergone the following transformations:

• conversion from UTF-16 LE to UTF-8
• removal of MS-DOS end of lines
• sort & removal of duplicates

These generated files went through the following transformations:

• removal of escape backslashes
• removal of lemma and grammatical info from dict-fr-DELA
• lossless conversion of accents for the *-ascii versions
• combination of the *-ascii and *-unicode versions into the *-combined ones (without duplicates)

spell(1) like tools, anagram(6), conjuguer(1)

DELA means "Dictionnaire Electronique du LADL" (LADL's electronic dictionaries). These dictionaries were initiated by the lab's founder, Maurice Gross.

This package of data files was originally intended to be used with the PNU project's conjuguer command, as well as many other text processing tools.

I wrote an history of Unix & French dictionaries (in French only), which covers this dictionary and many others.

The original contents, as well as this package, are licensed under the Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources.

Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL) for the original contents.

Hubert Tournier for the package.