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Visual Thesaurus
The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.
Say you have a meaning in mind, like "happy."It helps you find related words, from "cheerful" to "euphoric". The Visual Thesaurus is available in both the Desktop Edition and Online Edition.
The History of Visual Thesaurus.
“We were looking for a publicly available database with appeal to a broad audience in order to demonstrate our Thinkmap technology. We wanted to build a site that could show the interrelationships between words and meanings typically obscured by alphabetical representations and traditional interfaces (lists, tables, etc.). When we learned about WordNet, a lexical reference system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University, we realized that we had found a data set full of rich content and interesting relationships.” M.Tinkler, inventor Visual Thesaurus, 2002
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Thinkmap: Marc Tinkler
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Marc Tinkler, a co-founder of Thinkmap, oversees the creation of the company's technology products. Mr. Tinkler is the inventor of Thinkmap and the Visual Thesaurus. Mr. Tinkler previously served as Lead Technologist at Razorfish, where he designed and developed applications for AT&T, Microsoft, Time Warner, and the Smithsonian Institution. He graduated with a degree in Architecture with a minor in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. > Long Profile
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