Dictionary database?

Hi everyone,

I'm in need of a dictionary database for some software I'm building.

There seem to be a fair number of client applications that have a dictionary + interface out there. However, I just need the raw SQL, or a dictionary in XML format that I can parse into a database, etc.


If anyone is aware of something that fits the bill, please let me know. Thanks!

- DrGroove

Hello DrGroove,
your post is pretty old now, I guess you have found what you needed, and I happen to be looking for something very similar: synonyms in various languages for my MySQL database...
Can you help?
Thanks.
Kalista

I haven't found what I need yet. This is for a development project which I've been distracted from, hence it's sat for a bit.

The best option I've thought of thusfar is to use the XML dump from the Wiktionary project, parse through it and load it into a RDBMS (probably PostgreSQL) on some frequency (not daily, maybe monthly? weekly?).

I was sort of shocked at the lack of options available for doing this kind of thing. I would have thought that a downloadable, database-driven, imbeddable dictionary would already be "out there". It's not, so there's an opportunity for myself, you, and whoever else to put this sucker together and get it up on Sourceforge for posterity.

Let me know if you're interested in collaborating. I'm working in Java, which is a must for my project, but we could leverage Hibernate on the ORM layer to abstract the database layer, making it useable w/ MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc etc.