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Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary

126 points by ronakjain90 6y ago

thomasfromcdnjs 6y ago
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 https://github.com/knadh/dictmaker (He wrote an OS project that runs all the infrastructure for your very own dictionary website.)
- pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
  For the confused reader: s/OS/OSS/
hezag 6y ago
> So, that is the story of Alar and V. Krishna, the beauty of open data, and the incredible and infinite ways in which tiny, random events such as an overheard conversation, changes timelines, the Butterfly effect. Awesome article, thank you for sharing!
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varbhat 6y ago
Thank you for creating Dictionary for my First Language, Kannada . Really fascinated to see Work of V. Krishna . ಇದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ತುಂಬಾ ಸಂತೋಷವಾಯಿತು , ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು .
kwhitefoot 6y ago
That's beautiful and moving! This is what computers are really for.
alienonwings 6y ago
ಧನ್ಯವಾದ
- higerordermap 6y ago
  (Translation: thanks)
severak_cz 6y ago
this is great. Do we know other open source dictionaries? I know about https://www.dicts.info/ https://www.dicts.info/ (which itself is compilation of multiple sources, some open sourced by universities, some more shady)
- badestrand 6y ago
  I run a russian-english/russian-german Open Data dictionary, https://openrussian.org https://openrussian.org
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  Well Wordnet is often described as a combination of a dictionary and thesaurus structured so a computer can understand it https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
  - frank2 6y ago
    In my experience Wordnet as an English dictionary is much worse than the dictionary (the New Oxford American Dictionary) included with Macos and iOS.
- tikkabhuna 6y ago
  CC-Canto[1] is an open source Cantonese-English dictionary. [1] - https://cantonese.org/about.html https://cantonese.org/about.html
- Freak_NL 6y ago
  One of the older and well-known ones is Jim Breen's WWWJDIC (Japanese–English): http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic 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.
- tasogare 6y ago
  To name a few (each have data that can be downloaded): - Jibiki.fr (Japanese-French) - CFDict (Chinese-French) https://chine.in/mandarin/dictionnaire/CFDICT/ 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://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/ https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-twblg 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-tian https://github.com/fhl-net/Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-... - Littré XML (French) https://www.littre.org/faq 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).
kirankn 6y ago
Wonderful effort folks. You are definitely creating something that's going to last a long time and help a lot of people. Zerodha is a company I will adore from now on.

126 points by ronakjain90 6y ago

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 https://github.com/knadh/dictmaker (He wrote an OS project that runs all the infrastructure for your very own dictionary website.)

pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
For the confused reader: s/OS/OSS/

hezag 6y ago

> So, that is the story of Alar and V. Krishna, the beauty of open data, and the incredible and infinite ways in which tiny, random events such as an overheard conversation, changes timelines, the Butterfly effect. Awesome article, thank you for sharing!

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varbhat 6y ago

Thank you for creating Dictionary for my First Language, Kannada . Really fascinated to see Work of V. Krishna . ಇದನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ತುಂಬಾ ಸಂತೋಷವಾಯಿತು , ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು .

kwhitefoot 6y ago

That's beautiful and moving! This is what computers are really for.

alienonwings 6y ago

ಧನ್ಯವಾದ

higerordermap 6y ago
(Translation: thanks)

severak_cz 6y ago

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

badestrand 6y ago
I run a russian-english/russian-german Open Data dictionary, https://openrussian.org https://openrussian.org
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
Well Wordnet is often described as a combination of a dictionary and thesaurus structured so a computer can understand it https://wordnet.princeton.edu/ https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
- frank2 6y ago
  In my experience Wordnet as an English dictionary is much worse than the dictionary (the New Oxford American Dictionary) included with Macos and iOS.
tikkabhuna 6y ago
CC-Canto[1] is an open source Cantonese-English dictionary. [1] - https://cantonese.org/about.html https://cantonese.org/about.html
Freak_NL 6y ago
One of the older and well-known ones is Jim Breen's WWWJDIC (Japanese–English): http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic 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.
tasogare 6y ago
To name a few (each have data that can be downloaded): - Jibiki.fr (Japanese-French) - CFDict (Chinese-French) https://chine.in/mandarin/dictionnaire/CFDICT/ 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://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/ https://github.com/g0v/moedict-data-twblg 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-tian https://github.com/fhl-net/Lim-Chun-iok_2008_Tai-jip-Tua-su-... - Littré XML (French) https://www.littre.org/faq 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).

kirankn 6y ago

Wonderful effort folks. You are definitely creating something that's going to last a long time and help a lot of people. Zerodha is a company I will adore from now on.