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March 21, 2012

SoSlang Crowdsources a Dictionary

Filed under: Crowd Sourcing,Dictionary — Patrick Durusau @ 3:31 pm

SoSlang Crowdsources a Dictionary

Stephen E. Arnold writes:

Here’s a surprising and interesting approach to dictionaries: have users build their own. SoSlang allows anyone to add a slang term and its definition. Beware, though, this site is not for everyone. Entries can be salty. R-rated, even. You’ve been warned.

I would compare this approach:

speakers -> usages -> dictionary

to a formal dictionary:

speakers -> usages -> editors -> formal dictionary

That is to say a formal dictionary reflects the editor’s sense of the language and not the raw input of the speakers of a language.

It would be a very interesting text mining tasks to eliminate duplicate usages of terms so that the changing uses of a term can be tracked.

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