Summary An experiment in language and interface, Plumb Design's Visual Thesaurus is both an artistic exploration and a tool to explore, study, and analyze the structure of language. By displaying the interrelationships between words and meanings as spatial maps, the Visual Thesaurus translates language into a visible architecture.
The Visual Thesaurus was ... created using Plumb Design's Thinkmap® visualization software, a Java-based technology designed to create dynamic interfaces to information systems that reveal interrelationships often obscured by conventional methods of navigation and information display. Please visit http://www.plumbdesign.com/products/thinkmap for more information about Thinkmap.
The Visual Thesaurus accesses data from WordNet, a publicly available lexical reference system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. This database, inspired by psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory, contains over 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases collected into more than 70,000 sense meanings.
Designed to be accessible to a broad audience, including low-bandwidth users, the original Visual Thesaurus, launched in early 1998, tapped only a small portion of the comprehensive WordNet database. The new Visual Thesaurus exposes more of the relationships between words and their meanings to reveal clusters of words and meanings related by underlying lexical concepts.
In addition to the Online Edition, you can download a Desktop Edition to use even when you are not connected to the Internet. The Desktop Edition offers the same functionality as the Online Edition and more.
Use Constraints Platform Versions Memory Disk Space Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP 128 MB 20 MB Macintosh OS X 128 MB 20 MB
Please note that we do not currently support Windows 95 or Macintosh OS 9. If you are interested in a Windows 95 or Macintosh OS 9 version, please use our support form and let us know. If we get enough requests, we will consider adding additional versions.
Name:
PLUMB DESIGN
Phone:
212-285-8600
Phone:
888-be-plumb
Fax:
212-285-8999
Email:
info at plumbdesign.com
Contact Address:
Plumb Design, Inc.
157 Chambers Street City:
New York
Province or State:
NY
Postal Code:
10007
Country:
USA
TYLER
B.
STEVENS Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date:
2003-04-29
SERF Last Revision Date:
2005-08-02
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