Lexipedia is an online visual
semantic network
A semantic network, or frame network is a knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices ...
with
dictionary and
thesaurus
A thesaurus (plural ''thesauri'' or ''thesauruses'') or synonym dictionary is a reference work for finding synonyms and sometimes antonyms of words. They are often used by writers to help find the best word to express an idea:
Synonym diction ...
reference functionality built on
Vantage Learning
Vantage may refer to:
Places
*Vantage, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Vantage, Washington, United States
Aircraft
*Vantage Airport Group, an airport management company
* VisionAire Vantage, a prototype single-engine jet aircraft built by Scaled Compo ...
's Multilingual
ConceptNet
Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) is an artificial intelligence project based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab whose goal is to build and utilize a large commonsense knowledge base from the contributions of many thousands ...
.
[G. Adriaens]
Language Engineering Applications: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND SUMMARIZATION
ccl.kuleuven.be (2003-02-20) Lexipedia presents words with their
semantic relationship
Contemporary ontologies share many structural similarities, regardless of the ontology language in which they are expressed. Most ontologies describe individuals (instances), classes (concepts), attributes, and relations.
Overview
Common compo ...
s displayed in an animated visual word web. Lexipedia contains an expanded version of the English
Wordnet
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages. WordNet links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into ''synsets'' with short definit ...
and supports six languages; English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish languages.
References
External links
Lexipedia – Where words have meaningVantage LearningCentre for Computational Linguistics (CCL)
Online dictionaries
Thesauri
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