So to study more common words, the team also compared only those words that have two or more definitions. Many are nicknames or proper names such as Dan Taylor, defined as “A very wonderful man that cooks the best beef stew in the whole wide world.” These usually have only one meaning. However, the team note that many words on Urban Dictionary are relevant to only a small subset of users. It turns out that the overlap is surprisingly small-72 percent of the words on Urban Dictionary are not recorded on Wiktionary. The team also compare the lexical coverage of Urban Dictionary and Wiktionary. You have to wonder how the original bands feel about the slandering and mass misunderstanding and misuse of their originality with those of the unoriginal. Sadly, since the formulation and ongoing existence of Hot Topic, the term emo has been incorrectly characterized for a little more than a decade. Actual “emo” music existed in the late 80’s and was a subgenre of hardcore punk rock, after all, “emo” is a shortening of “Emotional hardcore punk rock.” The people in early emo bands dressed like regular people, everyday guys/girls who just played music that they enjoyed. Unfortunately this is completely inaccurate. In contemporary culture it is utilized as a broad term to describe a multitude of children and teenagers who straighten their hair, have their hair in their face, perhaps dye it black, and wear tight clothing. A terribly misconstrued and misused word.The word with the highest number of definitions is emo, with 1,204. Most words have just one definition, but a few have upwards of 1,000. They say it records 2,661,625 definitions for 1,620,438 words and phrases.
Nguyen and co begin by analyzing the Urban Dictionary content in the broadest terms. It also guides users as to what constitutes a definition. Moderators edit the content, control vandalism, and aim to generate high-quality results. Unsurprisingly, Wiktionary has also become an important online resource, one that researchers increasingly use for natural-language processing and so on. It records only word definitions and employs guidelines about how these should be compiled. This is a sister site to Wikipedia, run by the same Wikimedia organization. Wiktionary is an interesting comparison because it takes a much more formal approach to crowdsourcing.
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