Visuwords : see the world as cognitive science researchers spell it

[en] Visuwords is no search engine. This tool (trademark) is a free online visual thesaurus and dictionary. It has been developed by Paul R. Dunn, from Calgary, Alberta (Canada). Words — in English — are visually associated in diagrams (relations, opposites, …), with a short definition.Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource lexical database built by University students and language researchers. There ” Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. “

Here is an example of a search with Visuwords for “hero” :

[fr] Visuwords est un outil de visualisation lexicale en anglais, développé par le chercheur Paul R. Dunn (Calgary, Alberta – Canada). Utilisant la base de données lexicale Wordnet de Princeton University, Visuwords relie, autour d’un mot donné, des diagrammes lexicaux montrant relations, oppositions et champs sémantiques, ainsi que des définitions de base.