[Data-modeling] English Words

[Spencer Kelly]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jeff Prucher<jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
>  does anyone have data for it or does it just sound like a good idea, I
can't say),

you betcha.
the  CMU Pronouncing
Dictionary<http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict#about>
is great and gpl, aswell The moby lexicon
<http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/>(also gpl) has a great Pronunciator.
etymology is harder, but theres
lots<http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Dictionaries/Etymology//>of data.

> For example, WordNet gives five noun synsets
> for "rat"; these are all synsets of the same English word -- there are not
> five different words "rat", with unique etymologies, inflections, etc.

ya,  yuck.  well is it easier to split these homonyms before or after?

...and lets take a moment to realize that what we're doing is making the
world's greatest ever dictionary.
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