“Andre ord” – a wordnet browser for the Danish wordnet, DanNet
Anders Johannsen, Bolette Sandford Pedersen · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2011
A publically available wordnet browser will, if it does not remain in obscurity, have to cater to two different audiences: the professional lexicographers and the general public.This demonstration paper describes the wordnet browser "Andre ord" which has been developed for the Danish wordnet, DanNet.The first version was released in autumn 2009, followed by the release of a refined version in late 2010.The browser applies the open source framework Ruby on Rails and the graphing toolkit Protovis, and is itself open source.In the paper we discuss what design compromises might be needed when accommodating professionals and non-specialists alike, although our main concern is giving the general public an intuitive impression of the resource.To this aim we adopt the familiar, dictionary-like word-in-synset as the basic unit of the browser idea, but at the same time try to convey the idea that every piece of information in the wordnet is located somewhere in a larger semantic network structure.