This is an RDF translation of CEDICT, whose original data is available from https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/export/cedict/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz, and is discussed at the MDBG website.
The supporting schema can be found in data/cedict-schema.ttl. It
aligns to the Ontolex ontology.
The translated turtle file can be downloaded directly from
data/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.ttl.gz.
The DCAT specification is at data/cedict-meta.ttl. It is also part of the Linked Open Data Cloud, with this metadata.
Chinese has a couple of peculiarities. Its written form extends over a number of dialects with radically different pronunciations. There is no inflection to speak of, so each form is canonical. Part-of-speech for any given form is somewhat fluid and context-dependent.
CEDICT's English representations are descriptive. Some additional work would be necessary to align some subset of these descriptions to English forms. This file renders these descriptions as 'glosses'.
Normally there's nothing to build. The turtle file can be downloaded directly from
data/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.ttl.gz.
On the off chance you want to regenerate the file:
- Clone this repo
- Install leiningen
- $ lein run
By default, the input will be taken from
resources/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.txt.gz and output to
data/cedict_1_0_ts_utf-8_mdbg.ttl.gz, but these values can be
overridden by setting environment variables CEDICT_SOURCE_URL and
CEDICT_TARGET_PATH respectively.
This is RDF data, so typically you'd load it into the RDF store of your choice and access the data through SPARQL queries.
(This same data is available in loadable form at data/test-sample.ttl)
# [prefix declarations]
hanzi:王
rdfs:subClassOf zh:ChineseForm;
rdfs:subClassOf [a owl:Restriction;
owl:onProperty ontolex:writtenRep;
owl:hasValue "王"@zh];
zh:label "王"@zh.
cmn:王-wáng a zh:MandarinForm;
zh:writtenForm hanzi:王;
zh:pinyin "wáng"@zh-Latn-pinyin.
cedict:王-wáng a zh:CedictEntry;
ontolex:lexicalForm cmn:王-wáng;
ontolex:sense <http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng#1>;.
<http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng#1> a ontolex:LexicalSense;
en:gloss """surname Wang"""@en;
.
cedict:王-wáng-2 a zh:CedictEntry;
ontolex:lexicalForm cmn:王-wáng;
ontolex:sense <http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#1>, <http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#2>, <http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#3>, <http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#4>;.
<http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#1> a ontolex:LexicalSense;
en:gloss """king or monarch"""@en;
.
<http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#2> a ontolex:LexicalSense;
en:gloss """best or strongest of its type"""@en;
.
<http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#3> a ontolex:LexicalSense;
en:gloss """grand"""@en;
.
<http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wáng-2#4> a ontolex:LexicalSense;
en:gloss """great"""@en;
.
cmn:王-wàng a zh:MandarinForm;
zh:writtenForm hanzi:王;
zh:pinyin "wàng"@zh-Latn-pinyin.
cedict:王-wàng a zh:CedictEntry;
ontolex:lexicalForm cmn:王-wàng;
ontolex:sense <http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wàng#1>, <http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wàng#2>;.
<http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wàng#1> a ontolex:LexicalSense;
en:gloss """to rule"""@en;
.
<http://rdf.naturallexicon.org/zh/cedict/王-wàng#2> a ontolex:LexicalSense;
en:gloss """to reign over"""@en;
.
Copyright © 2018 Eric D. Scott
The CEDICT data is Licenced under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Per the conditions of that license, this RDF representation is licensed under the same terms.
The code is released under the Eclipse Public License, same as Clojure.