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Dicionários - Informação em português.

Available dictionaries are for usage in spell checkers or morphological analysers. They are produced in Linux/Unix environment, although they are also support by other OS, like Windows and Mac OS X. Frequent releases are produced. All dictionaries are covered by the GPL2 license. Myspell dictionary is also covered by BSD license.

For suggestions or online preview, please use WebJspell (Portuguese interface)

The repository is organized in a way to keep older version copies. To obtain the newest version, check the filename for the most updated date, or check for the file which description has “latest”.

All dictionaries:

* Aspell (0.5 e 0.6) * Ispell * Jspell * Myspell * Hunspell

Notice: If you are not limited by an external application, use Jspell, which covers better all details of the language (hyphenation of compound words and verbs).

See the README in each dictionary tarball for more informations. Other resources are available:

• Publishing - In PDF format are available: Verbal conjugation tables (+6000 verbs), irregular verbs conjugation tables (~200), and a list of foreign words included in the dictionary.
• Word list - Complete word list of the dictionary in text.
• SVN diff - Dictionary changes in the dictionary tracked by SVN (just for development).
• Changes - Historic of dictionary changes.

XML Atom file is available for new updates. Includes a list of changes (svn diff).

Changelog

Jspell is an open source morphologic analyzer for UNIX based systems, Ispell based, that allows processing through different interfaces, morphologic analyze or spell-checking text. Strongly orientated for text/word processing of Portuguese language.

Jspell along with the dictionary was developed in 1994 by Ulisses Pinto and José João Almeida. Jspell names comes from I+1.

The dictionaries don't pretend to cover all the Portuguese vocabulary, just the frequent words. Words which terminology is to much specific and rare, are not included in the dictionary.

Advantages to this path is for warranty a more efficient use of resources used by the spelling applications, in relation to their performance, memory usage, suggestions quality in case of error, real error detection (e.g. árvore (very frequent common name) , arvore (very rare verbal mode)

Portuguese dictionary (Jspell in 1995), morphologically annotated, was built by word extraction of academic material from Minho University, like PhD and Msc thesis, journalistic corpora from Portugal freely available, public name lists, and a lot of material with no copyright associated. On a second phase, most changes were made by the authors, manual consult of “frequent spelling mistakes” books and definition dictionaries, word frequency lists, user suggestions, crossing and validation of word with external entities collaborations.

• José João Almeida (jj - di.uminho.pt)
• Alberto Simões (ambs - di.uminho.pt)
• Rui Vilela (ruivilela - di.uminho.pt)

If you don't find the dictionary you need, or you have doubts in how to use or install, contact us. More information is available in README and INSTALL files.

For any doubtful information, contact us.

• Available dictionaries according to their release, contains only lexical, syntactic, and morphological information.
• None of the dictionaries have definitions.
• For automated installation in Openoffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird, see myspell page.

For suggestions, errors,online preview, use WebJspell

English, Spanish, Latin and portuguese of Portugal according with the 1990 Reform.