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Web-based software for collaborative creation of dictionaries.

Fantasdic is a DICT client. It is multi-platform and written in the Ruby programming language. It retrieves definitions from the internet via the DICT protocol instead of from a file on the local hard drive.

Glossmaster is the multi-lingual terminology tool developed for ANLoc, the African Network for Localization.

Glossmaster contains a core list of 2500 information technology terms that have been selected from a wide variety of software applications originally written in English, with definitions for each term in English, as well as other information that will help clarify the underlying technical concepts.

GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a superior job of suggesting possible replacements for misspelled words.

Ispell is a program that enables users to correct spelling and typographical errors in a file. When presented with a word that is not in the dictionary, Ispell attempts to find near misses that might include the word you meant.

Lingro is an online multilingual dictionary tool. Lingro's mission is to create an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them. Lingro is not open source software, but all content on Lingro is licensed under Creative Commons.

This is a collection of Free and Open Source (FOSS or FLOSS) software tools that support translation and localization of software and content.

These tools were mapped out and discussed by the participating projects at Aspiration's Open Translation Tools 2007 and Open Translation Tools 2009 events.

Please check out the wiki and participant video!

Tools tagged with ott07 and ott09 were represented at the respective events.

Transolution is a Computer Aided Translation (CAT) suite supporting the XLIFF standard with features to improve translation efficiency and quality. The suite provides an XLIFF Editor, translation memory engine and filters to convert different formats to and from XLIFF.

Wiktionary is a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. Designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices.