Editing Function in Graphical Visualization for Lexical Knowledge Base

Abstract

　The two dimensional graphical browser for lexical knowledge base such as thesauri has been developed our laboratory. However browsing functions is not sufficient as tools for handling lexical data because the attributes of a term object and the structure between objects change.
　The editing functions for lexical knowledge base with hierarchical structure has been developed. This paper describes the editing functions, and these examples of its usage. The problems of the functions and extended utilities are discussed.