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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

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).
nextaccountic 6y ago
I'm sure you know it, but there is https://www.wiktionary.org/ https://www.wiktionary.org/ too
dreix 6y ago
My dad's German Persian dictionary is freely available on https://farhang.im https://farhang.im with source code on https://git.hmt.im/hmt/farhang-3 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.

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).

nextaccountic 6y ago

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

dreix 6y ago

My dad's German Persian dictionary is freely available on https://farhang.im https://farhang.im with source code on https://git.hmt.im/hmt/farhang-3 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.