Sources & licences
Human texts
- Project Gutenberg — English fiction 1889–1922 (Joyce, Mansfield, Cather, Wharton, Anderson, Lawrence, Jerome, Grossmith). Public domain.
- PoetryDB — English poems (Dickinson, Blake, Shelley, Byron, Whitman). Public domain.
- chinese-poetry (GitHub) — 唐诗三百首、宋词三百首. Public domain; simplified characters via zhconv.
- Chinese Wikisource — Republican-era essays by 鲁迅, 朱自清, 周作人, 郁达夫, 萧红, 许地山. Public domain.
- Ukrainian Wikisource — Шевченко, Франко, Леся Українка, Коцюбинський, Стефаник, Куліш. Public domain.
- Stack Exchange answers (cooking, travel, pets, DIY, gardening, parenting, writing, music, lifehacks, interpersonal) — CC BY-SA 4.0, author and link shown with each text.
- Wikipedia (en / zh / uk) — article introductions, CC BY-SA 4.0, linked to the article.
Machine texts
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