Create your own language tools

Would you like to create a spelling checker or a terminology bank using reliable data? The federal government provides access to all of the terminological data from TERMIUM Plus, which allows you to build your own language tool.

Instructions

To learn how to download the data, please follow the instructions below:

1. Go to the Government of Canada's Open data portal
2. In the field “Search through our Open Government portal,” type “TERMIUM Plus,” select “Find” (or press “Enter”)
3. Select the dataset found (TERMIUM Plus, the Government of Canada's terminology and linguistic data bank)
4. On the page of data called TERMIUM Plus, find the field you are interested in and then select the “Access” button
5. You will see a window that asks "Do you want to open or save this file?" Select “Save”
6. Once the zipped files are saved to your computer, simply open them. You will see a list of CSV files
7. Copy the CSV files that you are interested to the drive of your choice
8. In each file, you have to convert the data so that you can read them. Here's how to do so
   1. 8.1 Launch a spreadsheet software (such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc) and select “Open”
   2. 8.2 Choose the drive that you want to copy the CSV files to. If you do not see a choice of files, select the option "all files" beside the window called "File Name"
   3. 8.3 Open the CSV file you want
   4. 8.4 In the “Text Import Wizard,” choose the “Delimited” option and select “Next”
   5. 8.5 In the second window, unmark the “Tab” delimiter and select “Comma” and select “Next”
   6. 8.6 In the third window, make sure the chosen format is “General” and select “Finish”
9. You'll see the data clearly organized by column. All that is left to do is to adjust the columns to see all the data for each one
10. Based on these data, you can create a variety of language tools such as a spelling checker or a terminology data bank

Related links

• TERMIUM Plus Open data
• TERMIUM Plus