Initial set-up

[soliviantar]

Hi. I am trying to get a dictionary from the eswiktionary dump. But I am a stranger to coding, so I am probably doing lots of stuff wrong.

I downloaded the dump and created the executable, but I get an error every time I run it. I think I'm not setting the Settings.toml file correctly or that maybe I should be putting it somewhere else.

This is the output of the executable (in PowerShell 7, as admin):

PS D:\IDM\dictionary-builder-master\target\release> .\dictionary-builder.exe
dictionnary-builder will use D:\IDM\dictionary-builder-master\target\release\dump\eswiktionary-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml
thread 'main' panicked at src\main.rs:59:54:
Unable to create file: Os { code: 5, kind: PermissionDenied, message: "Acceso denegado." }
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
PS D:\IDM\dictionary-builder-master\target\release> .\dictionary-builder.exe RUST_BACKTRACE=1
thread 'main' panicked at src\main.rs:25:79:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: configuration file "RUST_BACKTRACE=1Settings.toml" not found
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
PS D:\IDM\dictionary-builder-master\target\release>`

This is my Settings.toml (which I put inside the \release\ folder now):

root="D:\\IDM\\dictionary-builder-master\\target\\release\\dico"
words_file="D:\\IDM\\dictionary-builder-master\\target\\release\\dico\\words"
excluded_words_file="D:\\IDM\\dictionary-builder-master\\target\\release\\dico\\excluded"
xml_dump="D:\\IDM\\dictionary-builder-master\\target\\release\\dump\\eswiktionary-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml"
with_definition = true
expression = true
language_filter = true
language = "Spanish"
language_short = "es"

Any help would be appreciated.

[newca12]

You are not doing anything wrong, there are just missing/misleading instructions in the readme, the root dico folder must be created by you before running the program, I've added that to the readme. By the way I have also add a fix to deal properly with the spanish dump. Make sure you update your program with it. And last but not least I had also add a warning section to precise what can be expected from dictionnary-builder to avoid disappointments. If all goes well, with the latest eswiktionary-latest-pages-articles-multistream.xml you should end up with :
[INFO dictionary_builder] total number of entries:819815
[INFO dictionary_builder] total number of removed entries:141492`

[soliviantar]

Oh, ok, thanks! I will try that then. I had created the disco folder somewhere, I believe. I'll check it again.

Also, having an example of some extracted data on the readme would be good.

By the way, what does "expression" in the settings mean?

[newca12]

Basically if expression is set to true an entry in the dump (a potential word) with a space in it will be considered as an expression which can be very wrong with some languages. If set to false all these entries with spaces are simply discarded.