dict-demo.py

# coding: utf-8

import sys
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#Example usage:
#python dict-demo.py test-text-files/dict-test-ar-input.txt test-text-files/dict-out.txt ar
#python dict-demo.py test-text-files/dict-test-en-input.txt test-text-files/dict-out.txt en 

def usage():
	print ('Usage: ', sys.argv[0], '<inputfile> <outputfile> <source language>')
	print ('python dict-demo.py test-text-files/dict-test-ar-input.txt test-text-files/dict-out.txt ar')
	print ('python dict-demo.py test-text-files/dict-test-en-input.txt test-text-files/dict-out.txt en')

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if len(sys.argv) < 4:
	usage()
	sys.exit(2)

'''
Demo of Arabic-English dictionary translation using Open Multilingual WordNet (OMW)

Dictionaries are obtained from Open Multilingual WordNet website: http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/omw/

# To cite these dictionaries:
# Francis Bond and Kyonghee Paik (2012), A survey of wordnets and their licenses In Proceedings of the 6th Global WordNet Conference (GWC 2012). Matsue. 64–71.
# Francis Bond and Ryan Foster (2013), Linking and extending an open multilingual wordnet. In 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-2013. Sofia. 1352–1362. 

'''

import importlib
tp = importlib.load_source('textpro', 'textpro.py')




def main(argv):
	inputfile = sys.argv[1]
	outputfile = sys.argv[2]
	source_language = sys.argv[3].strip()
	print ('source language:', source_language)
	text = open(inputfile).read().decode('utf-8')
	word_list = tp.process_text(text)
	result = [] 
	if source_language == 'ar':
		for word in word_list:
			translations = []
			translations =  tp.translate_ar2en(word)
			for t in translations: result.append(t.strip())
	if source_language == 'en':
		for word in word_list:
			translations = tp.translate_en2ar(word)
			for t in translations: result.append(t.strip())

	output_text = ' '.join(result)
	output = open(outputfile, 'w')
	print>>output, output_text.encode('utf-8')
	output.close()


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if __name__ == "__main__":
	main(sys.argv)