[Data-modeling] English Words

[Ed Laurent]

I've also done some name modeling in the LitCentral base:

http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_full_name
http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_nickname
http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_name_suffix
http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/person_name_honorary_title
http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/base/litcentral/name_suffix_description

I toyed around with making these date mediated but couldn't find a solution
that I liked.

-Ed


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Arthur van
> Hoff<arthur.van.hoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Other useful types of words to include are titles (Mr. Mrs. Dr., etc.),
>
> Postnominals or name suffixes (e.g. Jr, Sr., MD, PhD, Esq., etc) as
> well as prefixes/titles.
>
> > abbreviations (OMG), people names (Smith, Johnson, ...), punctuation, and
>
> There's a Names base at http://givennames.freebase.com/ but I haven't
> been able to get an answer as to its provenance, so I have no idea how
> reliable it is.
>
> > slang. This will make it a very useful data set for many applications.
>
> A significant weakness of the current name schema is that there's no
> idea of telling what a name/alias represents, so you don't know if
> it's the official name, an abbreviation, a nickname, a maiden (birth)
> name, or what.  Also there are no dates associated with the names for
> those instances where a name was changed at a particular point in
> time.  For topics derived from Wikipedia, the main name is usually the
> common name as opposed to the official name (if they're different),
> while for most other entries the main name is usually the official
> name, so you can't even make any assumptions based on whether it's an
> alias or not.
>
> Tom
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