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INFORMATION LITERACY :

VISUAL LITERACY :

DICTIONARIES: VISUAL DICTIONARIES :

BIBLIOGRAPHIES:

Some Visual Dictionaries Online and in Print

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Some Visual Dictionaries Online and in Print

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Visual Dictionary Online

Merriam Webster

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images.

Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words
like never before.

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Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

http://www.visuwords.com/

Visuwords online graphical dictionary Look up words to find their
meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams
reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to
expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the
mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and
drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!

Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.

The online dictionary is available wherever theres an internet
connection.

No membership required.

Visuwords uses Princeton Universitys WordNet, an opensource database built
by University students and language researchers. Combined with a
visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern
web technologies, Visuwords is available as a free resource to all patrons
of the web.

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The Visual Dictionary

http://www.infovisual.info/

Visual Dictionary, to learn by way of image with thematic, clear and
precise pages, with concise and rigorous texts, multilingual, the
InfoVisual will become an academic resource. Different from an
encyclopedia or from a traditional online dictionaries, thesauri and
glossaries because the images replace the words.

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The Visual Dictionary

http://thevisualdictionary.net/

The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world.
Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we're
trying to catalogue it.

We started the project in February 2006, and have since racked up over
7500 images of over 4000 words - thanks to everyone who has contributed to
date. We're of course, still accepting entries, as the Dictionary should
just continue growing forever, but we're starting to think about ways of
navigating and browsing images now.

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ThinkMap Visual Thesaurus

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

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Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr
images, and more!

http://blachan.com/shahi/

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Snappy Words: Free Visual Online Dictionary

http://www.snappywords.com/

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Visual Dictionary: The Visual Reference

http://www.ikonet.com/en/visualdictionary/

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Visual dictionary

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_dictionary

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Visual Dictionary

Teaching computers to recognize objects

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/vision/TinyImages/

Visual dictionary: Visualization of 53,464 english nouns arranged by
meaning. Each tile shows the average color of the images that correspond
to each term.

Click on top of the map to visualize the images in that region of the
visual dictionary.

We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language
arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an
arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,464 nouns. The images
for each word were obtained using Google's Image Search and other engines.
A total of 7,527,697 images were used, each tile being the average of 140
images. The average reveals the dominant visual characteristics of each
word. For some, the average turns out to be a recognizable image; for
others the average is a colored blob. The list of nouns was obtained from
Wordnet, a database compiled by lexicographers which records the semantic
relationship between words. Using this database, we extract a
tree-structured semantic hierarchy which we use to arrange tiles within
the poster. We tessellate the poster using the hierarchy so that the
proximity of two tiles is given by their semantic distance. Thus the
poster explores the relationship between visual and semantic similarity.
For a large part of our language the two are closely correlated as shown
by the extent of visual clustering within the poster. The large-scale
groupings correspond to broad categories such as plants or people. Within
the plant cluster, for example, tighter semantic groupings are visible
such as flowers or trees. In turn each of these clusters contains further
groupings all the way down to individual, highly specific nouns. The
averaging within each tile removes the variation between images of a given
word, enhancing the similarly between neighbors. By clicking on top of the
map, you will see the word corresponding to that location, the average
image and the first 12 images returned by the image search online tools.

Currently computers have difficult recognizing objects in images. While
practical solutions exist for a few simple classes such as human faces or
cars, the more general problem of recognizing all different classes of
objects in the world (e.g. guitars, bottles, telephones) remains unsolved.
Computer Vision researchers are currently investigating methods that can
recognize and localize thousands of different object categories in complex
scenes. A key component of these algorithms is the data used to train the
computers' model of each object. Current approaches use collections of
images gathered by hand. Our research explores how the billions of images
available on the Internet can be used to train models for object
recognition. We gathered from the web 79 million images. We are using this
massive dataset to train a computer to recognize objects within an image
and to understand the scenes depicted in photographs.

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The Firefly visual dictionary
A Firefly book
Authors Jean Claude Corbeil, Ariane Archambault
Edition illustrated
Publisher Firefly Books, 2002
ISBN 1552975851, 9781552975855
Length 952 pages

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Visual dictionary
Ultimate Visual Dictionary
Authors DK Publishing, Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Edition revised, illustrated
Publisher DK, 2002
ISBN 0789489481, 9780789489487
Length 672 pages

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The Perigee visual dictionary of signing: an A-to-Z guide to over 1,350
signs of American Sign Language
Perigee Series
Authors Rod R. Butterworth, Mickey Flodin
Editor Mickey Flodin
Illustrated by Mickey Flodin
Edition 3, revised, illustrated
Publisher Penguin, 1995
ISBN 0399519521, 9780399519529
Length 478 pages

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The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture
A Henry Holt reference book
Author Rachel Carley
Edition reprint, illustrated
Publisher Macmillan, 1997
ISBN 0805045635, 9780805045635
Length 272 pages

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Ultimate Visual Dictionary
Author DK Publishing
Publisher Penguin, 2011
ISBN 0756691850, 9780756691851
Length 672 pages

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The visual dictionary of architecture
Architecture Series
Visual Dictionary
AVA book
Authors Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, Sally Stone
Edition illustrated
Publisher AVA Publishing, 2007
ISBN 294037354X, 9782940373543
Length 288 pages

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The visual dictionary of graphic design
Reference Series
Visual Dictionary
Authors Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
Edition illustrated
Publisher AVA Publishing, 2006
ISBN 2940373434, 9782940373437
Length 288 pages

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Merriam-Webster's visual dictionary
Authors Jean Claude Corbeil, Ariane Archambault
Edition illustrated
Publisher Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2006
Length 952 pages

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A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
Author Francis D. K. Ching
Edition 2, illustrated
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN 0470648856, 9780470648858
Length 336 pages

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Visual dictionary
Editor Jo Evans
Edition illustrated, revised
Publisher A Dorling Kindersley Book, 2006
ISBN 1405317493, 9781405317498
Length 672 pages

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A visual dictionary of architecture
Architecture Series
Author Frank Ching
Edition illustrated
Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997
ISBN 0442024622, 9780442024628
Length 319 pages

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A Visual Dictionary of Native Communities
Crabtree visual dictionaries, Bobbie Kalman
Visual Dictionaries Series
Author Bobbie Kalman
Edition illustrated
Publisher Crabtree Publishing Company, 2007
ISBN 0778735052, 9780778735052
Length 32 pages

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The Macmillan visual dictionary
Authors Quec/Amique International, Jean-Claude Corbeil
Editor Jean-Claude Corbeil
Edition illustrated
Publisher Macmillan, 1997
ISBN 0028614348, 9780028614342
Length 896 pages

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Britannica Visual Dictionary
Authors Jean-Claude Corbeil, Ariane Archambault
Edition illustrated
Publisher Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2008
ISBN 1593394322, 9781593394325
Length 900 pages

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The Visual Dictionary of Illustration
Visual Dictionary
Reference Series
Author Mark Wigan
Edition illustrated
Publisher AVA Publishing, 2009
ISBN 2940373906, 9782940373901
Length 288 pages

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Visual Dictionary of Typography
Visual Dictionary
Authors Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
Edition illustrated
Publisher AVA Publishing, 2010
ISBN 2940411182, 9782940411184
Length 288 pages

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The visual dictionary of fashion design
Fashion Series
Visual Dictionary
Authors Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
Edition illustrated
Publisher AVA Publishing, 2007
ISBN 2940373612, 9782940373611
Length 288 pages

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Ultimate visual dictionary of science
Ultimate Visual Dictionary
Author DK Publishing, Inc
Edition illustrated
Publisher DK Pub., 1998
ISBN 0789435128, 9780789435125
Length 448 pages

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The Visual Dictionary of Photography
Visual Dictionary
Author David Prel
Edition illustrated
Publisher AVA Publishing, 2009
ISBN 2940411042, 9782940411047
Length 288 pages

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The Visual dictionary of everyday things
Volume 1 of Eyewitness visual dictionaries
DK Visual Dictionaries
Author Dorling Kindersley Limited
Edition illustrated
Publisher Dorling Kindersley, 1991
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Oct 1, 2010
ISBN 1879431173, 9781879431171
Length 64 pages

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The Visual Dictionary of Baseball
Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries
Dorling Kindersley visual dictionaries
Author James Buckley
Edition illustrated
Publisher Dorling Kindersley, 2001
ISBN 0789467259, 9780789467256
Length 64 pages

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The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture and Design
Reference Series
Visual Dictionary
Authors Michael Coates, Graeme Brooker, Sally Stone
Edition illustrated
Publisher AVA Publishing, 2008
ISBN 2940373809, 9782940373802
Length 288 pages

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