Add 500 new words to Spanish-Catalan bidix

albertonl commented 5 years ago

500 new words have been added to the Spanish-Catalan bilingual dictionary.

Method of identification: I have used the book Los tres mosqueteros, by Alejandro Dumas, to identify some old words. There were just over 200 unknown words in the whole book. Then, I found the full RAE Spanish Dictionary (1995 version, I think) in .txt in @olea's lemarios repository (you can find the file here). For that, I would like to thank him for that work and letting people reuse it.

Actually, in that file there were a lot of unknown words, so I found other 300 normally used words. This would also be very useful for any language pair including Spanish, to complete their dictionaries.

Method of inclusion: Then, I introduced them into the bidix and I checked that any of my words had been introduced with the latest commits. 17 words were newly added, so I found another 17 words and I introduced them.
Monolingual dictionaries: Many of the new words in the bidix weren't in the monolingual dictionaries for Spanish and Catalan. Exactly, 383 of the new words were missing in the Spanish monolingual dictionary, and 224 in the Catalan dictionary. So I have also introduced them into their corresponding dictionaries, of which I will do a new pull request in those repositories just after finishing this one.

albertonl commented 5 years ago

Monolingual packages PRs:

Spanish -> https://github.com/apertium/apertium-spa/pull/4
Catalan -> https://github.com/apertium/apertium-cat/pull/4

albertonl commented 5 years ago

Sorry, were 384 into the Spanish monolingual dictionary and 204 into the Catalan one :D

albertonl commented 5 years ago

Can you tell me what does LR actually stand for, please?

albertonl commented 5 years ago

Does LR mean that that translation does only work from language a to language b, and RL that does only work from language b to language a? Am I wrong?

xavivars commented 5 years ago

That's exactly it.

Here you have an example, taken from apertium-spa-cat bilingual dictionary

<e r="RL">    <p><l>décimo<s n="adj"/></l>    <r>dècim<s n="adj"/></r></p></e>
<e>           <p><l>décimo<s n="adj"/></l>    <r>desè<s n="adj"/></r></p></e>

In this example, Spanish adjective décimo will be translated as Catalan adjective desè, and viceversa. On top of that, Catalan adjective dècim will also be translated as Spanish décimo.

Does it make sense?

albertonl commented 5 years ago

Yes, it does! Thank you so much, Xavi. 😀

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