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I'd like to get an electronic list of occupations/professions/jobs in English, like "doctor," "cowboy," "assistant to the regional manager," etc.

I can't quite find this in the WordNet hierarchy (strangely, there are "professions," but that only has a few occupations listed), and I tried the historical thesaurus, but with no luck.

Are there other resources for machine-readable hierarchical thesaurus-like lexicons?

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    Does en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:en:Occupations work for you?
    – Adam Bittlingmayer
    Mar 13, 2018 at 7:53
  • Kind of! It's the best one I've seen yet. Although I'm puzzled as to why there are only 8 subcategories. Like, why "military" and "scientists," but not "agricultural workers"?
    – Jonathan
    Mar 14, 2018 at 22:46
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    It is a work in progress. But if you go to one of the items in the uncategorised list, eg en.wiktionary.org/wiki/farm_worker, you see that it is in category en:Occupations and en:Agriculture. ie labels not directories.
    – Adam Bittlingmayer
    Mar 15, 2018 at 9:06
  • You should try Open Data SE. Also these sorts of datasets are sometimes called ontologies.
    – Adam Bittlingmayer
    Mar 15, 2018 at 10:43

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Here are approximately 1,000 professions in the English language. Enjoy.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/dictionary-legendary/Professions.txt

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    That's not a hierarchical list.
    – curiousdannii ♦
    Mar 14, 2018 at 3:27
  • Well, it's a two level hierarchy, where everything extends 'profession', if you want to be literal. But to the point, Computational Linguists need lists like this, not snarky comments. Linguists are so funny.
    – jeff schneider
    Mar 14, 2018 at 12:09

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