English dictionary in XML?

[Scott Carpenter]

I would be willing to donate web space after the conversion is done.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Dyck <jmdyck at netcom.ca>
To: <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 12:36 AM
Subject: English dictionary in XML?


> MICRA, Inc. (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/MICRA/) is working on a
> freely-available online knowledge base, which currently includes a
marked-up
> version of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G&C Merriam Co., 1913,
> edited by Noah Porter), with over 100,000 headwords. It's still a work in
> progress: many of the pronunciations and Greek etymologies are missing,
and
> it needs a lot of proof-reading, but it's a huge start. (It's the basis
for
> a searchable dictionary at
> http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html, hosted by
the
> University of Chicago's ARTFL Project.)
>
> The marked-up text of the dictionary can be downloaded from
> ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/misc/webster. There are 24 files (generally one file
> per letter). Zipped, they total 11.4 Mb. Unzipped, I'd guess 35-40 Mb.
>
> Now they're not in XML format, but they're close. I'd be willing to do the
> conversion, but I don't have the space to host the result.  Does anyone
want
> to volunteer some web space?
>
> -Michael Dyck
>  jmdyck at netcom.ca
>
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