Words in their native environment...
a tree of human concepts.
 
Welcome to Lexonomy a hierarchical, broader term/narrower term dictionary and dictionary builder, of the English language. When completed, everyone will be able to help build it, then search for words by relationships.
 

Suggestions, comments, threats... jackbellis@hotmail.com

November 2010: Abandoned previous Flash/XML-based solution and pursuing text attempt with social editing; abandoned Google Wave; now trying Google Sites.

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What
  • A new kind of dictionary, inspired originally by the techwriting dilemma of how to choose between the words "select, specify, choose, click, highlight, define, enter, and type," and by crossword puzzle solving. Lexonomy is a hierarchy of concepts in the structured mind.
 

Why
  • Because it's not there.
 

How
  • Collaborative text editing, now attempting to use Google's wike "Google Sites."
  • Prior attempts used 1) Google Wave and 2) a custom Flash control, both of which slowed to a hald because of the list sizes.
 

Who
 

How Much?
  • Free... just a web page... no spam, no download, no Pro version, no privacy notice, no privacy, no techsupport, no voicemail hell, no Death-by-PowerPoint.
 

When
  • Forever editing.

 

History
2010-Nov Trying Google Sites
2009-Dec-5 Google Wave 'explodes' (their word not mine) on 250K files. Trying new segment of 20 words.
2009-Nov Rebuilding in anticipation of Google Wave social editing of public domain version of Rogets Thesaurus
   
   
   

Important Features/Defects/Open Tasks
  1. N/A

Nice to Have/Fix

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Completed
  1. N/A

Lexonomy Archive

N/A

Observations on Lexonomics
  1. When trying to position "when" I noticed that it should go under "time" but it's not a subset. Uh-oh. The relationships that I'm actually trying to define are not true broader/narrower... they're relationships that use any and all other words. "When" belongs to "time" by the "question" relationship; "time" belongs to "question" by the "when" relationship.
  2. In building "do>how>recipe>formula" I'm really starting to see some substance. And it might be substantiating my thought from crossword puzzles that all words should be able to be defined by at most two other words... unless possibly our brains do work with more-than-2 concept dimensions. I resist this notion, but it's probably inevitable.
 

 

Key Use Cases

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Important Features/Defects/Open Tasks
  1. N/A

Nice to Have/Fix

  1. N/A

Completed
  1. N/A

Lexonomy Archive

N/A

Observations on Lexonomics
  1. When trying to position "when" I noticed that it should go under "time" but it's not a subset. Uh-oh. The relationships that I'm actually trying to define are not true broader/narrower... they're relationships that use any and all other words. "When" belongs to "time" by the "question" relationship; "time" belongs to "question" by the "when" relationship.
  2. In building "do>how>recipe>formula" I'm really starting to see some substance. And it might be substantiating my thought from crossword puzzles that all words should be able to be defined by at most two other words... unless possibly our brains do work with more-than-2 concept dimensions. I resist this notion, but it's probably inevitable.
 

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