[Data-modeling] English Words

[Jeff Prucher]

One of the things that's prevented anyone from tackling this yet is the
issue of polysemy. WordNet handles this by having separate entities for each
sense, which might be very cumbersome in Freebase.  Each sense could be a
CVT, but if you're linking synonyms, you have to be linking two CVTs (that
is, a sense of a word is only synonymous with a sense of another word),
which is not easily done in the client (although it can be done via MQL). 
 
Talking of senses opens another issue -- whose breakdown do you use?
Different dictionaries break down senses differently (lumping vs. splitting
is an age-old issue in lexicography). Would there be a need to represent
sense breakdowns by multiple authorities?
 
Jeff


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[mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Arthur van Hoff
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Subject: [Data-modeling] English Words


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.

Thanks.

-- 
Arthur van Hoff
arthur.van.hoff at gmail.com
650-283-0842


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