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Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by severak_cz on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:06AM (#24625214)
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)

Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by tasogare on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:41AM (#24626454)
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).

Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:20AM (#24625911)
Well Wordnet is often described as a combination of a dictionary and thesaurus structured so a computer can understand it https://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by frank2 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:42AM (#24629185)
In my experience Wordnet as an English dictionary is much worse than the dictionary (the New Oxford American Dictionary) included with Macos and iOS.
Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by badestrand on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:27AM (#24625302)
I run a russian-english/russian-german Open Data dictionary, https://openrussian.org
Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by nextaccountic on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:18AM (#24626770)
I'm sure you know it, but there is https://www.wiktionary.org/ too
Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by dreix on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:16PM (#24632422)
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.
Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by Freak_NL on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:31AM (#24626374)
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.

Re:Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary by tikkabhuna on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:09AM (#24626259)
CC-Canto[1] is an open source Cantonese-English dictionary.

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