Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network

Semantic network

A semantic network is a network which represents semantic relations among concepts. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It is a directed or undirected graph consisting of vertices, which represent concepts, and edges.- History :...

 with dictionary

Dictionary

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

 and thesaurus

Thesaurus

A thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning , in contrast to a dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations...

 reference functionality built on Vantage Learning's Multilingual ConceptNet(http://www.ccl.kuleuven.be/Courses/LEA/LEA-IR-Summ200203.pdf). Lexipedia presents words with their semantic relationships displayed in an animated visual word web. Lexipedia supports English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish languages. Lexipedia contains an expanded version of the English Wordnet

WordNet

WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets...

and supports six languages; English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish languages.

External links

• Lexipedia – Where words have meaning
• Vantage Learning
• Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL)