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Joe Speigle's Korean/English dictionary database
Kengdic
Kengdic is a large, open Korean/English dictionary database created by Joe Speigle. It was originally hosted by Joe at ezcorean.com.
The bulk of the usable data is in kengdic_2011.tsv
. The raw
directory contains data which still needs to be examined. The scripts
directory contains some automated QA checks for the data; these are run whenever a change is made in this repository.
Contributors
The dictionary data is still quite dirty, and contributions are very welcome. Some ways you can help:
-
Fix some of the issues which have been automatically flagged. The list of these issues is available on the repository website: http://garfieldnate.github.io/kengdic/.
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Check existing entries for correctness (흰색 means white, not gray, "the m prophets", lowercase "british", etc.)
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Add new entries
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Assess the current coverage. Are we missing any particularly basic words, or words related to any specific subject?
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Fix grammatical, spelling or formatting issues
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Help come up with editorial and style guidelines.
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Come up with new automatic checks we can run on the dictionary to find possible issues (see
scripts/lint.py
).
By contributing data, you release it under the same license terms as Kengdic itself (see below).
Example Datapackage Usage
We've provided a datapackage.json
for convenience. To retrieve and load the data in python:
-
pip install datapackage
$ python
>>> from datapackage import Package
>>> package = Package('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/garfieldnate/kengdic/master/datapackage.json')
>>> resource = package.get_resource('kengdic')
>>> data = resource.read(keyed=True)
>>> data[20977]
{'id': 20978, 'surface': '급조', 'hanja': '急造', 'gloss': None, 'level': None, 'created': datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 1, 20, 23, 14), 'source': 'mr.hanja-213889@ezcorean:213889'}
License
The Kengdic data is released under dual licenses: users may choose to use MPL 2.0 or the LGPL, version 2.0 or later.