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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Tom Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tfmorris@gmail.com">tfmorris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Arthur van Hoff<br>
<<a href="mailto:arthur.van.hoff@gmail.com">arthur.van.hoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Has anyone thought about loading English (and other language) words into<br>
> Freebase?<br>
> We are currently using WordNet and Wiktionary data, but it would be really<br>
> convenient if this was available Freebase.<br>
> For each word we need the language, POS (noun, verb, adverb, adjective),<br>
> synonyms, sample usage, translations, etc.<br>
<br>
</div>I guess I'm missing what additional capabilities you'd get by having<br>
these resources co-located with Freebase. Is it just a convenience<br>
thing? Or are you looking for better quality replacements for WordNet<br>
and Wiktionary? Or ...?<br>
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