Short: Foreign language dictionary/translator
Author: Native Human Laboratories (NHL)
Uploader: Miklós Árpád (alan elender hu)
Type: text/misc
Version: 3.00
Requires: 68000, KickStart 3.0, 1 MB RAM
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Name: LSDictionary3
Description:
LSDictionary v3 is the largest language dictionary program to date for
the AMIGA computer, comprising more than 50 dictionaries, some of which
have a database with over 100,000 entries. The total number of words
in all the databases is over 1,500,000.
The largest databases are obviously those of the most popular languages,
such as English, German, Spanish or French, but some very special
dictionaries like Urdu-English or Suaheli-English have also been
included.
Every dictionary is freely expandable, and you can create new ones in a
very simple and user-friendly manner. Individual dictionaries can be
switched on and off, thus making the program able to filter out
databases not currently used.
It is possible to import words from an external database file, which is
the quickest way to expand the dictionary.
Searching for a word takes very little time, always less than a second.
This can be tested with the text file "translation" function, which runs
at a speed of 120 to 150 words per minute using a 4x CD-ROM drive - well,
this translates to approx. 2 words a second.
Although text file "translation" consumes a significant amount of time,
it helps people read documentations in languages they do not speak at
all, relieving them from the burden of writing down meanings of words
having looked them up in various dictionaries.
The most interesting and valuable feature of the program is its word
stripping system. This system is able to search for the root of a specific
word, stripping down endings, suffixes and prefixes, thus providing an
immeasurably better chance for the program to locate the word in the database.
(Example: 'procurement' + STRIP '+ment' = 'procure')
To use the program you will also need to have V38+ of reqtools.library
(created by Nico François and Magnus Holmgren) installed in your system.
Additional features:
- 100% system friendly user interface, looking very good with an 8 color
MagicWB palette
- Speech support including various accents (needs version
42.x of the translator.library created by Francesco Devitt)
- All functions are also available from CLI/Shell
- Full locale support - every message and text displayed is localised
Demo restrictions:
- Only one small database (English-German: 13,489 words) is in this archive,
but others are also available via Aminet, and the full version has
much bigger databases (e.g. English-German: ~98,000 words)
- A request comes up time and again...
Price (CD version only):
59 DM
For further information please contact:
Alan <alan@elender.hu>
Louise <louise@bedrock.fido.hu>
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Archive contents:
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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1044 68 93.4% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 Fonts/LSDictionary.font
3148 1624 48.4% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 Fonts/LSDictionary/10
3236 1540 52.4% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 Fonts/LSDictionary/13
2232 1379 38.2% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 Fonts/LSDictionary/8
4828 2114 56.2% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 Locale/Catalogs/deutsch/LSDictionary3.catalog
4688 2188 53.3% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 Locale/Catalogs/magyar/LSDictionary3.catalog
1051 32 96.9% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSD.pre
301185 102013 66.1% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSData/LSD_Eng-Ger.dat
53956 36955 31.5% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSData/LSD_Eng-Ger.ndx
240 24 90.0% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSDataAppend/LSD_Eng-Ger.dat
8 8 0.0% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSDataAppend/LSD_Eng-Ger.ndx
179540 79170 55.9% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSDictionary3
: Native Human Laboratories
129929 42421 67.3% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSDictionary3.Guide
: LSDictionary3 Guide v1.4 (18/02/97)
1639 549 66.5% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSDictionary3.Guide.info
3865 1662 56.9% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSDictionary3.info
2931 1527 47.9% 01-Apr-97 00:31:02 LSDictionary3.readme
226 150 33.6% 31-Mar-97 23:30:22 LSDModes.LST
371 194 47.7% 31-Mar-97 23:57:46 README.install
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694117 273618 60.5% 01-Apr-97 00:33:04 18 files