[Data-modeling] English Words

[Arthur van Hoff]

I'd like a place where the community can update the dictionary, in many
languages. We have a lot of additions to the Wordnet dictionary that we
can't share easily. Also WordNet is somewhat incomplete, and English only.
Dictionaries are a manageable size, ~300k words per language, have lots of
structure, and are heavily linked and searchable. It would be tremendously
useful to have it available in a machine readable format. I am sure that
many Freebase developers that work on free text parsing would find it
useful. But perhaps you are right, and it is not the right thing for
Freebase.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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Arthur van Hoff
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