Editing Semantic similarity (section)

== Visualization ==
An intuitive way of visualizing the semantic similarity of terms is by grouping together terms which are closely related and spacing wider apart the ones which are distantly related. This is also common in practice for [[mind maps]] and [[concept maps]].

A more direct way of visualizing the semantic similarity of two linguistic items can be seen with the [[Semantic folding|Semantic Folding]] approach. In this approach a linguistic item such as a term or a text can be represented by generating a [[pixel]] for each of its active semantic features in e.g. a 128 x 128 grid. This allows for a direct visual comparison of the semantics of two items by comparing image representations of their respective feature sets.