The Visual Dictionary

by Neal Levene on Friday, January 2, 2009 · 0 comments

in Natural Language

The Visual Dictionary is a collection of photographs of single words photographed from signage, advertising, graffiti, packaging, menus, and any other real world place. All of the images were contributed by site users.

Visual Dictionary

Why do this? The site designer, Matthew Knight, wanted to pursue what he considered a nice idea which would “be visually stimulating and interesting.” Frequently, contributors leave behind the back story of the image. While a picture may be worth a thousand words, this site contains 4 thousand pictures each worth one word.

I am left asking:

Visual Dictionary

The web designers are planning some API interfaces to their site. You can check out their plans here.

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  • Natural Language - Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.

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