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Google Code-in 2012 Apertium

Add missing chemical elements to the bidirectional dictionary en-ca

completed by: Toh Zi Jie

mentors: Youssef Oualmakran

Write a text file with the missing chemical elements for the bilingual dictionary English-Catalan with the requested file format [1][2][3].

File format

<e>       <p><l>A1<s n="n"/></l>               <r>B1<s n="n"/></r></p></e>
<e>       <p><l>A2<s n="n"/></l>               <r>B2<s n="n"/></r></p></e>
<e>       <p><l>A3<s n="n"/></l>               <r>B2<s n="n"/></r></p></e>
...
....

Where A1 is the name of a missing element in English, and B1 its translation into Catalan. For example for ''sulfur'' you would write
<e>       <p><l>sulfur<s n="n"/></l>               <r>sofre<s n="n"/></r></p></e>
 
The missing elements are already available in table format [4][5].

Usefull links

[1] http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Bilingual_dictionary
[2] https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-en-ca/apertium-en-ca.en-ca.dix
[3] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_qu%C3%ADmic
[4] http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Missing_chemical_elements
[5] http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7968236

Requirement

* Know how to use a text editor.
* Upload a file with the missing elements in the format that has been described above.

 

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