From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2003 - 07:11:57 EDT
--- Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote: > On Fri,
2003-07-18 at 18:16, ericzen wrote:
> > On 2003.07.18 02:38 Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > >
> > > Just be very sure that only non-copyrighted
> material
> > > is included, or that permission is granted by
> the
> > > copyright owners.
> > >
> > > Anyway at the risk of overstating, we don't so
> much
> > > want the most common words as we want the
> functional
> > > words.
> >
> > Why would it matter?
> > I'll put eighty bucks down that Michael Crichton
> doesn't care if
> > his "to"s are in the dictionary or if Wikipedia's
> "to"s are in
> > the dictionary. Granted, if "Jurassic" shows up
> in the dictionary
> > (like your second point), we might have more
> serious issues....
> >
> > I, personally, would like to think that the out
> put will be
> > hand-eyeballed, which would prevent the likes of
> "time" from
> > entering the dictionary (relatively common) and
> ensure that "this"
> > is present.
>
> Collections may be copyrighted in some places.
> However, I don't think common words are something
> that would be
> considered copyrighteable, or did I miss something?
The copyright warning was in regard to corpuses. A
corpus is a collection of written material. A wordlist
we make ourselves from any corpus is fine even if the
corpus contained copyrighted material. But we still
wouldn't be able to store the original materials in
cvs for example if they were copyright.
Hope that makes it clear (:
Andrew.
> Rui
> --
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough --
> unknown
> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
> + So let's do it...?
>
> Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT
> attachments.
> See
>
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
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