[Data-modeling] English Words

[Tom Morris]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Arthur van Hoff
<arthur.van.hoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I guess I'm missing what additional capabilities you'd get by having
these resources co-located with Freebase.  Is it just a convenience
thing?  Or are you looking for better quality replacements for WordNet
and Wiktionary?  Or ...?

Tom