german-dict-helper

https://github.com/languagetool-org/german-pos-dict provides an extensive morphological and syntactic lexicon for German.

german-dict-helper very simple Node.js module that contains:

• parts of this data if different specific json files
• a helper class to get data from these files

Installation

npm install german-dict-helper

Usage

var GermanDictHelper = require('german-dict-helper').GermanDictHelper;


var gdh = new GermanDictHelper();

// Frühstück
console.log( gdh.getNoun("Frühstücken") );

// schön
console.log( gdh.getAdj("schöner") );

The json files are created from the source data via the createDb script.

Current helpers:

• getAdj takes a flex form (string) of an adjective and returns its root. gelbe => gelb. null when not found.
• getNoun takes a flex form (string) of a noun and returns its root. Flaschen => Flasche. null when not found.

Dependencies and licences

german-pos-dict provides linguistic binary resources under CC-BY-SA-4.0, which autorises commercial usages. It also contains an export.sh script to generate a textual dump using https://github.com/languagetool-org. dictionary.dump (zipped in dictionary.zip) is this textual dump. It remains under CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence.

The derived json files included in this package remain under the same CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence.