伝統的な辞書の欠点を補うウェブ辞書wordnik

いままでの伝統的な辞書の欠点を補う,辞書学者Erin McKeanによるウェブ辞書であるwordnik。wordnikはユーザーにただ意味を登録してもらうばかりでなく,言葉の変化を記録して,センテンス中での使われ方や意味上関連する隣り合う言葉やイメージや使用頻度統計をひとつの場所にまとめて示してくれる。

A couple of years ago, lexicographer Erin McKean gave a TED talk about the evolution of language and the shortcomings of traditional dictionaries (an hour long, well worth your while). Since then she has been working on an entirely new sort of online dictionary to address some of those shortcomings, and it's now gone live (in beta) as Wordnik. In the words of Maria Popova at Brain Pickings, "A crowdsourced toolkit for tracking and recording the evolution of language as it occurs, its goal is to gather as much information about a word as possible ― not its mere definition, but also in-sentence examples, semantic "neighborhoods" of related words, images, statistics about usage, and more."

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/003535.php
http://www.wordnik.com