Visual thesaurus
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1. A visual thesaurus system, comprising:
- source means for obtaining information concerning a plurality of words, meanings and relationships between the words and meanings;
graphing means for determining a set of word, meaning and relationship information to be displayed in a directed graph related to a selected word from the plurality of words, meanings and relationship obtained by the source means;
positioning means for determining a relative position of the related words, meanings and relationships in the set of information to be displayed; and
displaying means for determining a representation of the related words, meanings and relationships in the set of information on a display;
wherein the selected word may have a plurality of meanings and each of the meanings of the selected word are displayed by the displaying means.
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Abstract
A visual thesaurus system and method for displaying a selected term in association with its one or more meanings, other words to which it is related, and further relationship information. The results of a search are presented in a directed graph that provides more information than an ordered list. When a user selects one of the results, the display reorganizes around the user'"'"'s search allowing for further searches, without the interruption of going to additional pages.
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1. A visual thesaurus system, comprising:
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source means for obtaining information concerning a plurality of words, meanings and relationships between the words and meanings;
graphing means for determining a set of word, meaning and relationship information to be displayed in a directed graph related to a selected word from the plurality of words, meanings and relationship obtained by the source means;
positioning means for determining a relative position of the related words, meanings and relationships in the set of information to be displayed; and
displaying means for determining a representation of the related words, meanings and relationships in the set of information on a display;
wherein the selected word may have a plurality of meanings and each of the meanings of the selected word are displayed by the displaying means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of providing a visual thesaurus, the method comprising:
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receiving a selected term;
obtaining word, meaning and relationship information regarding the selected term;
displaying information including a plurality of meanings of the word connected to the selected term in a directed graph;
wherein the plurality of meanings are depicted as nodes and the selected term is positioned in the center of the directed graph. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of providing a visual thesaurus comprising:
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displaying a first level of information including a word and a plurality of meanings of the word;
displaying at least one further level of information including terms related to at least a portion of the plurality of meanings of the word. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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