Credits
Where Shirabe gets its data
Shirabe stands on decades of open-source lexicography. Every entry, reading, and tag here originates from the projects below - please visit them, support them, and check their licences before redistributing.
Dictionary data
- JMdict - Japanese↔multilingual word entries
- Compiled by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG, James Breen et al.) and distributed under the EDRDG licence. We use the jmdict-simplified JSON conversion by Stanislav Petrov.
- JMnedict - proper-noun (names) dictionary
- Also from EDRDG, same licence terms; consumed via the jmdict-simplified JMnedict release.
- KANJIDIC2 - kanji dictionary
- EDRDG, same licence; sourced from jmdict-simplified's KANJIDIC2 release.
- Kangxi radical names & meanings
- The Japanese reading, English gloss, stroke count, and positional category for each of the 214 classical radicals is sourced from Kanji alive (kanjialive.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Wikipedia abstracts (via DBpedia)
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Lead-paragraph summaries of Wikipedia articles in every supported language come from the
DBpedia project's
long_abstractsdataset. The text remains the property of the Wikipedia contributors who wrote it and is dual-licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License. Each abstract card on a word page links back to the source article.
Tokenisation & analysis
- Sudachi
- Japanese morphological analyser by Works Applications. We use the Rust port, sudachi.rs, plus its SudachiDict dictionary releases. Apache-2.0.
- kabosu
- Ruby bindings for sudachi.rs maintained alongside Shirabe - github.com/davafons/kabosu. Apache-2.0.
Software
Shirabe is built on Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, and a stack of other open-source gems. Typeset in Inter Tight, Newsreader, Noto Sans JP, and JetBrains Mono. Source on GitHub.
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