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color=#0000ff size=2>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).
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color=#0000ff size=2>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?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Jeff</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> data-modeling-bounces@freebase.com
[mailto:data-modeling-bounces@freebase.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Arthur van
Hoff<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:30 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
data-modeling@freebase.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Data-modeling] English
Words<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>Has anyone thought about loading English (and other
language) words into Freebase?<BR>We are currently using WordNet and
Wiktionary data, but it would be really convenient if this was available
Freebase.<BR>For each word we need the language, POS (noun, verb, adverb,
adjective), synonyms, sample usage, translations, etc.<BR><BR>Thanks.<BR
clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Arthur van Hoff<BR><A
href="mailto:arthur.van.hoff@gmail.com">arthur.van.hoff@gmail.com</A><BR>650-283-0842<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>