About the CLD

The CLD is intended as a web service for anyone working with ancient languages, whether privately or professionally. While there are already various freely accessible online dictionaries, we aim to consolidate this knowledge and unlock it for new usage scenarios through an API. Previously, users were limited to the frontend of the respective website, but we allow our users direct programmatic access to the data, whether through scripts or through the frontend of a website operated by third parties.

Furthermore, we aim to make AI-powered natural language processing accessible to less technically savvy users and provide it via both frontend and API. To achieve this, we offer various SpaCy models optimized for web usage.

We describe our API specifications in a separate documentation as well as in an OpenAPI document.