The following is a list of the generative dictionaries publicly viewable on the web that I am aware of.
"Generative dictionary" here means any web site, bot, or other computational thing that generates new words in an existing language, and assigns them meanings.
If you know of anything else that belongs in this list, want to submit a correction, or want your own work to be removed from this list, you can contact me at this email address.
— Robin Hill
On November 19, 2020, I gave a short talk highlighting a few of the entries here and discussing some of their different approaches. You can find a video recording and a written version of the talk here.
English - restricted
twitter
Boazim Bot generates English boazims - a combination of two words into one in which the identities of the original words are unclear.
English
neural network
Char-RNN
Oxford English Dictionary
site | twitter
Dictionarish generates English words, tagged with part of speech, along with definitions, pronunciations, and sometimes etymological origin. It uses a recurrent neural network.
English
procedural
site | twitter
Fantastic Vocab generates English words, tagged for part of speech, and definitions. Its web site collects submissions of usages of its words. It combines elements drawn from actual English words in sets of three according to a certain pattern.
Read more: Vice | Chatbots Life
English
neural network
Python, Torch-RNN
WordNet
site | twitter | mastodon (botsin.space) | mastodon (oulipo.social) | instagram (illustrated selections) | github
Glossatory generates English words and short definitions. It uses a recurrent neural network.
Read more: Botwiki
English
neural network
Python, Char-RNN, badwords.json
Oxford English Dictionary, public submissions
tumblr | twitter | github
Lexiconjure generates English words, tagged for part of speech and other properties, along with definitions and sometimes alternate forms or etymological origin. It uses a recurrent neural network as well as a genetic algorithm. It was trained on the Oxford English dictionary but also accepts new data from Twitter.
Read more: Cloud Raker (fr) | Google Arts & Culture
English
procedural
Python, lemminflect
site | twitter | mastodon | github
Lyre's Dictionary generates English words, tagged for part of speech, and short definitions. It uses a stock of actual English word elements of Latin and Greek origin, annotated for use with combining rules.
Read more: Botwiki
English
markov chain
WordNet
twitter
Power Vocab Tweet generates English words, tagged for part of speech, with short definitions. It uses a markov chain generator drawing from definitions on WordNet.
Read more: author blog | MetaFilter | New York Review of Bots
English, Spanish - restricted
procedural
site (English) |
site (Spanish)
The Definition of Game generates definitions for the word 'game', according to a specified grammar.
English
neural net
Python, GPT-2
Apple dictionary, Urban Dictionary
site | twitter | github
This Word Does Not Exist generates English words, tagged for part of speech, along with definitions and example sentences. It uses a variant of GPT-2 with a model trained on various dictionaries.
Read more: The Verge | Yahoo! Finance
English, Esperanto
Python
twitter | github
Vortidplenigilo generates Esperanto words along with English glosses of their components. It selects a random root and applies affixes according to combining rules.
Read more: author blog