RE: [kidsgames] word familiarity

["Brian Thompson" <briandthompson@home.com>]

Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, but...   I think this is an awesome
idea and there are alot of ways to divide the work up and we could get a
basic 10000 word usable database out and then ask for uploads of updates as
its used.  At this point I'm not quite as concerned about entering
definitions as long as the relational fields are correct and we get good
sound files, picttures can come later as well.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kidsgames@smluc.org [mailto:owner-kidsgames@smluc.org]On
> Behalf Of Steve Baker
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 1:30 PM
> To: kidsgames@smluc.org
> Subject: Re: [kidsgames] word familiarity
>
>
> Brian Thompson wrote:
> >
> > I have been reading the documentation from the wordnet and
> instantly thought
> > of this email.  My thoughts about the database have only been
> solidified by
> > what I have read.  I have been reading linguistic texts and yes several
> > dictionaries and have realized the true power a database such
> as this would
> > wield in society.  I hope to nail down a good basic structure
> and post it
> > soon, keep in mind I am getting new ideas everyday about what
> to include in
> > the function, even XML links to webpages of the related subject
> or specific
> > place, such as the site of the
> > ohsolongnamedtowninwalesthathasbeenmentionedherebutisfartolongtoremember
> > (perhaps that should be the name of a town). Well many revolutions begin
> > with a single thought.  I have thus far only worked on
> structure and format
> > is a thing for days to come, as we can import or export as necessary.
>
> I was thinking some more about the 'cooperative, word-at-a-time' way of
> getting this built.  It occurs to me that there are already some ventures
> like that out on the web.
>
> One that I recollect well is http://www.h2g2.com - which is
> the "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"...just like in the Douglas Adams
> series of books/radio shows/TV of that name.
>
> It's an attempt to build a universal (but silly) guide to absolutely
> everything.  The projects been running for a least a year and the
> list of stuff they have definitions for is incredible.  Not just
> individual words, also movie titles and stuff like that.
>
> People provide funny definitions to words that the website
> cross-indexes like crazy.  If you have a better definition for a
> word than the previous one, you can submit it and people can vote
> on whether yours is better. (Well, something like that)
>
> Perhaps that's the model you should be trying to get to?  Just
> a *serious* version of that - to which users can append pictures
> and sounds.  Of course if you open it to the general public you
> are running the risk of people posting pornography under the
> definition of 'Giraffe'...so you'd still need to check the word
> list periodically before making a 'released' version to ship with
> games.
>
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