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Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary

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Re: Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary

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Post by tikkabhuna »

severak_cz wrote: post #8

this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries? I know about https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)

CC-Canto[1] is an open source Cantonese-English dictionary.

[1] - https://cantonese.org/about.html

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Post by Freak_NL »

severak_cz wrote: post #8

this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries? I know about https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)

One of the older and well-known ones is Jim Breen's WWWJDIC (Japanese–English):

http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic

(Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence)

The dictionary files are used in a lot of websites and apps that provide a Japanese–English dictionary.

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Post by tasogare »

severak_cz wrote: post #8

this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries? I know about https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)

To name a few (each have data that can be downloaded):

- Jibiki.fr (Japanese-French)

- CFDict (Chinese-French) https://chine.in/mandarin/dictionnaire/CFDICT/

- 教育部臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (Taiwanese Hokkien) https://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/ https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-twblg

- 台日大辭典 (Taiwanese Hokkien-Japanese) https://github.com/fhl-net/Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-...

- Littré XML (French) https://www.littre.org/faq

- 重編國語辭典修訂本 (Chinese)

Note that all have different, sometimes incompatible license. In particular dictionaries from Taiwan's Ministry of Education usually don't allow derivatives.

There is also a lot of dictionaries digitized on Archive.org that felt into public domain would require transformation into text (actually the Jibiki project did that with the Cesselin).

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Post by nextaccountic »

severak_cz wrote: post #8

this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries? I know about https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)

I'm sure you know it, but there is https://www.wiktionary.org/ too

Re: Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary

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Post by pwdisswordfish0 »

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #2

I read the whole article, it was well written and fascinating. But for those who don't read to the end, you will miss out on quite cool link that OP posted -> https://github.com/knadh/dictmaker (He wrote an OS project that runs all the infrastructure for your very own dictionary website.)

For the confused reader: s/OS/OSS/

Re: Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary

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Post by frank2 »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #10
severak_cz wrote: post #8

this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries? I know about https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)

Well Wordnet is often described as a combination of a dictionary and thesaurus structured so a computer can understand it https://wordnet.princeton.edu/

In my experience Wordnet as an English dictionary is much worse than the dictionary (the New Oxford American Dictionary) included with Macos and iOS.

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Post by dreix »

severak_cz wrote: post #8

this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries? I know about https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)

My dad's German Persian dictionary is freely available on https://farhang.im with source code on https://git.hmt.im/hmt/farhang-3 I haven't yet found the ideal way to share the sqlite database file in a current state.
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