Grady Ward

Grady Ward (born 1951) is an American software engineer and lexicographer. Combining computer technology with the organization of English vocabulary, he created and released the Moby series of English lexical resources, which has had a certain influence in the field of language data. The series includes lists of common words in multiple languages, a thesaurus list, a part-of-speech list, a pronunciation list, and a hyphenation list. Among them, the Moby Thesaurus contains more than 2.5 million synonyms, a considerable scale that provides usable foundational data for natural language processing, dictionary compilation, and language research. Five of his works are held in this collection. Public information about his education and personal background is limited; his contribution lies mainly in openly aggregating and sharing large-scale English lexical materials for the convenience of later users.