Timeline for How hard would it be to create a truly free dictionary? [closed]
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| Mar 3, 2021 at 18:35 | comment | added | Kairei | Thanks for the info. I guess I've just never quite understood the motivation to close questions that might provide useful info to the community. There are many requests for opinions and/or resources that don't get closed, e.g. there's a question here asking "what is the best dictionary for Indian English?" which is asking for both opinion and resources, and it wasn't closed. I'm guessing a number of people have found the answer to that question quite useful... but I digress. I'm not sure what the "Meta page" you mentioned is. Would it be possible to provide a link? | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 1:05 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | The recent edit turns this question from one inviting opinions into one about the existence of resources, which is off-topic. I think re-opening the question so that it can be re-closed for a different reason is unnecessary, so I'm voting against re-opening. Feel free to ask on our Meta page whether your question should be re-opened; asking there can sometimes provide the avenue for an oblique answer to the substantive question. :-) | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 17:15 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Mar 2, 2021 at 17:01 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Any such work by a single person is going to be unmoderated: biased (what is essential?), lacking (OED consists of many hundreds of pages, and Wiktionary contains many more headwords), and almost certainly error-containing. | |
| Mar 2, 2021 at 16:54 | history | edited | Kairei | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added re-focused version of original question to ask for facts and citations rather than opinion
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| Feb 13, 2021 at 2:11 | comment | added | Kairei | While I'm pretty convinced there isn't one, I certainly appreciate more potential "free" dictionaries... but getting some opinions on the main question of the level of effort to create one would be very much appreciated. I've continued to do my own research and found something called COMLEX which has about 35,000 entries. According to nlp.cs.nyu.edu/comlex/index.html, it was created "by a team of four linguistics graduate students, working half-time for approximately one year." That's about 4,000 person hours for 35,000 entries (about 8 or 9 per person per hour). Sound reasonable? | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 17:05 | comment | added | Kairei | Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I reviewed WordNet as well and yes I consider any requirement to include any notice a deal breaker as it means the end user has to worry about if some original content owner (or some future new owner of that copyright) might make changes or otherwise cause issues. The WordNet license page even has what I'd consider a "warning" about making sure you have an attorney review the license based on the planned use. | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 16:46 | comment | added | Laurel♦ | What about WordNet as mentioned in english.stackexchange.com/q/8233/191178 ? I guess you can argue that it comes with “strings attached” but if that string is that you have to cite them, is that really a dealbreaker? | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 6:20 | comment | added | Kairei | Thanks for the comment. I've seen Wiktionary but it comes with a dual license, both of which have some of the undesirable requirements described above. I'm also not wild about the bots and dated source material - I'd want human creation and up to date language. | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 4:44 | comment | added | Xanne | See en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary. It is apparently based on out-of-copyright dictionaries. Also has entries created by bots. | |
| Feb 12, 2021 at 4:41 | review | Close votes | |||
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