Dictionary
Word by word: definitions and equivalents that keep terms stable across languages, cultures and industries.
“Oh. Lights go on and colours flash.”
Multi-Vocabulary Alignments
Three vocabulary types — dictionary, ontology and taxonomy — that make different semantic systems comparable in Model 4 of the Gaming Machine.
Refining alignment across semantic systems.
Ontology
Relations between concepts: what belongs to what, what depends on what, and where external references such as Wikipedia attach.
Taxonomy
Ordered classification: hierarchies of classes that make two different vocabularies comparable in one alignment run.
Lights go on. From Words & Categories, Meaning & Context.
Visual Word Formats for Thinking, Learning, and Gaming
Words are Organised into Columns, Trees, and Maps by Model 4 of the Gaming Machine. Select a Segment to See.
Vocabulary types and their visualisation formats give structure to meaning — making thinking, learning, and gaming comparable across humans and machines.
Selected Vocabulary Type
Three-Column 3D
3D Vocabulary — Term → Concept → Domain in three columns
A semantic mapping system that aligns meaning across three layers.
Not an ontology or taxonomy.
This vocabulary type is now active in the Alignment Gaming Machine.