It\u2019s been awhile since we\u2019ve posted but that does not mean we haven\u2019t been active. I\u2019ve added a new task to collect words by semantic domains. There is substantial evidence that we organize words in our minds in a network of relationships. Words tend to cluster in groups that we call semantic domains. People can rapidly jump from word to word along the mental pathways within a semantic domain. If you ask someone to think of words that describe the surface of water, they can quickly give you a number of words such as \u201cturbulent\u201d, \u201crippled\u201d, \u201ccalm\u201d, \u201cstill\u201d, \u201crough\u201d, \u201cchoppy\u201d, and \u201cglassy\u201d.<\/p>\n
Thinking of words by semantic domains is used to jump start the dictionary creation process. For each domain, a set of elicitation questions prompt users to think of the words that belong to that domain. For instance, the domain \u201cFish with net\u201d contains the questions,<\/p>\n
When the user enters a word, it is inserted into the dictionary and automatically classified by that domain.
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\nThe semantic domain task can use any template of semantic domains and questions, but WeSay ships with the semantic domain template from Ron Moe\u2019s Dictionary Development Process<\/a>.<\/p>\n