Semantic Landscape
Marc Weeber's paper on "Developing a Test Collection for Biomedical Word Sense Disambiguation" gives the following three senses of the term "cold": 1) temperature indication, 2) the acronym for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, and 3) a common disease. The semantic landscape at right investigates this example of sense disambiguation among US Patent documents.

2. This visualization uses topographic convention as a means through which to compare semantic distances across searches.