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80 Million Tiny Images

80 Million Tiny Images
You have submitted 0 labels. 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. Visual dictionary 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. Currently computers have difficult recognizing objects in images. Teaching computers to see When you visualize the images for each word, you can click on top of each image and select if they are correct examples of the associated word (a green frame will appear around the image) or if they are incorrect (a red cross will appear). Funding support came from NSF Career award (ISI 0747120), ISF and a Microsoft Research gift. Related:  English languagecomputing

Visual Synonyms | Visual Antonyms | Thesaurus English CodeMonkey Lucy Pringle's Crop Circle Photograph Library : Barbury Castle, Wiltshire, 2008 A 'ratchet' type design. A 'ratchet' type design. (photo 2) A 'ratchet' type design. A 'ratchet' type design. A 'ratchet' type design. A 'ratchet' type design.

Pathfinders This guide is designed for anyone who is looking for the origin of words and/or phrases, also called etymology (these terms will be used interchangeably in this pathfinder). Both print-based and Web-based sources are included. Internet Sources | Searching for Etymology | Print Resources Internet Sources In general, web sites on word and phrase origins are good, but not comprehensive: most of them are question services of a sort, and the answers are posted on the site. Some of these archives can be quite large, and not necessarily organized by anything more than date of posting; if you're looking for something specific, use the find function on your browser (this will be a button in Netscape; in Internet Explorer, it's under the "edit" pull-down menu). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable From the 1894 work of the same name; this is extensively cross-referenced, and excellent for phrases which have their roots in literature or mythology. Print Resources

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