[Data-modeling] English Words

[Kurt Bollacker]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:29:42PM -0700, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone thought about loading English (and other language) words into
> Freebase?
> We are currently using WordNet and Wiktionary data, but it would be really
> convenient if this was available Freebase.
> For each word we need the language, POS (noun, verb, adverb, adjective),
> synonyms, sample usage, translations, etc.

It's been thought about, but people, places, and things tended to have
higher priority.  I'd say to go know yourself out.  There are existing
RDF representations of Wordnet, which would make writing a Freebase
loader a little easier.

One (example) question though: How would you relate the WordNet word
"Water" to the English display name for the freebase topic /en/water?
It seems like disconnected duplication would be less than optmimal.

								Kurt :-)




 
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