A Graph Visualization Tool for Terminology Discovery and Assessment

This paper presents a Graphical User Interface (GUI) mainly based on a graph visualization device and used for exploring and assessing lexical data found in the DiCoInfo, a specialized e-dictionary of computing and the Internet. Computer visualization devices have been used to present and browse data in many fields, but GUIs for electronic dictionaries have not evolved much. Very few take advantage of the fundamental nature of dictionaries: they are huge and ordered collections of lexical relationships (i.e. lexical networks). Graph visualization devices such as intertwined (directed) graphs present themselves as better tools to browse these relationships. They surely are well suited for assessing the consistency of encoded data.