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Hey Hacker News! I'm thrilled to read all the comments with ideas and improvements. I will try to answer and keep up with the thread. Kudos to all the similar

Hey Hacker News! I'm thrilled to read all the comments with ideas and improvements. I will try to answer and keep up with the thread. Kudos to all the similar initiatives trying to solve the problems I outline in the article. It's wonderful to see a zeitgeist about dictionaries. Who wants to jump the article and try the version I built, feel free to download the iPhone [1] or Android [2] version or run it by itself with the open source repo [3] 1: https://apps.apple.com/app/wordnote-dictionary/id1596537633 https://apps.apple.com/app/wordnote-dictionary/id1596537633 2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zehfernandes.dictionote https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zehfernand... 3: https://github.com/zehfernandes/wordnote https://github.com/zehfernandes/wordnote Cheers!

8191 4y ago
How did you manage to get the dictionaries for all those languages? If I didn’t miss it, that part is left open in the article after explaining how highly priced they are…
- jobigoud 4y ago
  From the article: "I landed on the freeDictionary API that uses the Wiktionary as a source.".
  - chii 4y ago
    Why didn't they just download the dumps via https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ (as explained in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktiona...) Scraping, even via an api, is way less efficient imho.
    - gnubison 4y ago
      They’re in wikitext, which looks to be considerably less semantic than the crawled data. I’m not sure that’s the reason, but it could be a reason.
      - chii 4y ago
        I'd say not the reason, since the wiki text is pretty semantic. the wiki source of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subbureau#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subbureau#English is: ==English== ===Etymology=== {{prefix|en|sub|bureau}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun|s|subbureaux}} # A [[district]]-level public security bureau in [[China]]. so as long as one can parse wikitext, it's split pretty well up!

8191 4y ago

How did you manage to get the dictionaries for all those languages? If I didn’t miss it, that part is left open in the article after explaining how highly priced they are…

jobigoud 4y ago
From the article: "I landed on the freeDictionary API that uses the Wiktionary as a source.".
- chii 4y ago
  Why didn't they just download the dumps via https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ (as explained in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:FAQ#Downloading_Wiktiona...) Scraping, even via an api, is way less efficient imho.
  - gnubison 4y ago
    They’re in wikitext, which looks to be considerably less semantic than the crawled data. I’m not sure that’s the reason, but it could be a reason.
    - chii 4y ago
      I'd say not the reason, since the wiki text is pretty semantic. the wiki source of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subbureau#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subbureau#English is: ==English== ===Etymology=== {{prefix|en|sub|bureau}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun|s|subbureaux}} # A [[district]]-level public security bureau in [[China]]. so as long as one can parse wikitext, it's split pretty well up!