Sorry, but you already lost me. I am neither a native English speaker, nor a linguist. Examples would help.<br><br>We use the wordnet data to find the stems of words with synonyms, and descriptions. <br>Then we use an English lexicons and Wiktionary to find derivations and additional stems.<br>
It is not perfect, but it is a start.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jeff Prucher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@metaweb.com">jeff@metaweb.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;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" 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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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" 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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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Jeff</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:data-modeling-bounces@freebase.com" target="_blank">data-modeling-bounces@freebase.com</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:data-modeling-bounces@freebase.com" target="_blank">data-modeling-bounces@freebase.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Arthur van
Hoff<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:30 PM<br><b>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:data-modeling@freebase.com" target="_blank">data-modeling@freebase.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Data-modeling] English
Words<br></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<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" target="_blank">arthur.van.hoff@gmail.com</a><br>650-283-0842<br>
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