Filed under “thesaurus”

Thesaurus computations

Today I just started computing the relations between groups. It’s been chugging along on my local machine for about 8 hours now, I’m 1% complete and have a table with 5 million entries (at 210mb). If a word is shared between two groups, it forms an edge between those two groups. I’m storing that edge as [...]

More thoughts on an interesting thesaurus

My associate, Rebecca, and I have been starting to think critically about Panlexicon.com, the unique, tag-cloud based thesaurus I’ve written about <a href=http://island94.org/node/128″>previously. We’re hoping to put some more time and effort into the project and in the process, learn some more about what’s happening with the language and the underlying structure of the thesaurus [...]

Introducing Panlexicon.com

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I’m very proud to be officially launching Panlexicon.com: a unique thesaurus. Using intuitive “tag clouds” to represent synonyms, Panlexicon makes discovering the word you want quick, easy and explorational. Panlexicon’s current functions allow you to: First Albino Farm full , perform a lookup on a single word and receive a weighted cloud of synonyms. Second, view synonyms [...]