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This project is a conversion into [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mediawiki] format of Liddell, Scott, Jones' ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Greek%E2%80%93English_Lexicon A Greek–English Lexicon]'', which is more commonly known as '''LSJ'''. The data have been provided by the [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu Perseus Project] with a Creative Commons Sharealike / Non-Commercial / Attribution license.
This project is a conversion into [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki mediawiki] format of Liddell, Scott, Jones' ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Greek%E2%80%93English_Lexicon A Greek–English Lexicon]'', which is more commonly known as '''LSJ'''. The data have been provided by the [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu Perseus Project] with a Creative Commons Sharealike / Non-Commercial / Attribution license.
==Features==
A number of features has been implemented to enhance this resource; for example '''diacritics-insensitive''' live search (based on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search Lucene], random '''ancient Greek quotes''' with English translations, semantically arranged data (like the [[Index:Contents|Indexes]] of various transliterations and forms). It was a long and arduous trip, but we hope you will agree with us that it was worth the effort.
==Search==
You can search using polytonic Greek, monotonic Greek, atonic Greek or Latin characters. You will get live search results no matter which option you choose.


==Credits==
==Credits==

Revision as of 16:58, 14 February 2013

Project identity

This project is a conversion into mediawiki format of Liddell, Scott, Jones' A Greek–English Lexicon, which is more commonly known as LSJ. The data have been provided by the Perseus Project with a Creative Commons Sharealike / Non-Commercial / Attribution license.

Credits

This project has relied on the following Mediawiki Extensions for some of the advanced features:

And the implementation of the semantic features would not be possible without the help of Issac Hecht and Yaron Koren.