[Corpora-List] Food Resources

[Ted Han]

Given the broad nature of the request, assertions about the inadequacy of
any particular resource should probably first be constrained by further
details about the task at hand.

There are companies within the dietetic world which do keep what amount to
comprehensive lists of food items, but given their proprietary nature they
might be challenging to access.  But again, it depends on what one's needs
are & resource constraints.


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:27 AM, John F Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net> wrote:

> On 7/8/2014 12:10 PM, Demner Fushman, Dina (NIH/NLM/LHC) [E] wrote:
>
>> The Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus
>> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/ has semantic type food:
>> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/META3_current_semantic_types.html
>>
>
> This raises the many complex issues about contexts and domains.
> The UMLS has a rather "medical" view of food.
>
>
> On 7/8/2014 12:52 PM, Ted Han wrote:
>
>> Depending on what you’re looking to do, the LA Times did a writeup of
>> scraping together a database from their archive of recipes using NLTK:
>> http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2013/12/natural-
>> language-processing-in-the-kitchen/
>>
>
> Even this barely scratches the surface of food preparation and eating.
> Just consider the differences:  home cooking; restaurants ranging from
> Michelin stars to pushcarts, cafeterias, and mess halls; the many
> ethnic cuisines, ingredients, and methods of preparation; gardening,
> farming, agribusiness; mass produced food products; meals, desserts,
> snacks, banquets, picnics, fasts, feasts, famines, and all the social,
> religious, and advertising practices, prohibitions, rituals...
>
> How would any of these issues relate to the earlier discussions
> about schemas, scripts, prototypes, and word senses?
>
> John
>
>
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