Create the first electronic dictionary Castilian public

This digital dictionary is part of the COES, electronic dictionary is the first Spanish public domain and freely distributed.

Tools for the Spanish language COES project is a field of research, Department of Architecture and Technology Systems (DATSI), Faculty of Computer Science University of Madrid (UPM).

The main objective of this research is to formalize a set of Spanish grammar rules and apply those rules to test different types of correction in documents written in Spanish. To facilitate distribution, COES software is distributed as freely available since its inception in 1994. Despite having more than ten years old, the tool is updated and available on the project page.

The dictionary
The Spanish dictionary system comprises an electronic dictionary in text format, containing 53,000 words, a file of Spanish inflectional morphological classes, and a script that generates an expanded dictionary in binary format, containing all the inflected forms of verbs, nouns and adjectives in the dictionary of lemmas, along with ways unchanged, as adverbs, conjunctions, and so on.

This file set up a Spanish dictionary of terms whose number is constantly increasing, although you can not have new versions until they are checked for proper operation. It is currently available to the public when the new versions. The current distribution of COES includes a spell checker.

As Infoling to comment, have expanded electronic dictionary in text format can be particularly important for technology developers-both Spanish linguistic Universities and companies, which need to integrate a dictionary of inflected forms for specific applications, especially taking note that dictionaries are the only project COES electronic dictionaries of Spanish public domain and freely available (without license).

What has
The complete set of dictionaries and other components are integrated by a flex file morphological suffixes of verbs, nouns and adjectives in Spanish, a list of words that appear in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language (twenty-first edition) , another list of words that are not in the dictionary academic, but are commonly used in Spanish, and a list of words, although not shown in the DRAE, commonly used in computer science.

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