ViCoS (Visualizing Conceptual Spaces) is an extension of LEXUS. It allows users to complement lexical spaces (as created by LEXUS) with ontological spaces. With ViCoS, users can define concepts they judge culturally relevant, and connect them to other concepts via a multitude of (user-definable) relation types. All concepts are anchored in the language to express them, and links can be established to objects in the multimedia archive to further describe them. The resulting conceptual space thus adds a new dimension to language documentation.
ViCoS is inextricably linked to LEXUS in that it draws on your lexical material that you have assembled in LEXUS to create a network of conceptual spaces. You can work on all the lexica that you have in LEXUS creating conceptual links between entries within a particular lexicon as well as linking entries from different lexica in your workspace. Importantly, everything that you create in ViCoS is created on the LEXUS data. ViCoS, however, does not modify your lexica in LEXUS in any way. In that sense the structures created in ViCoS are independent conceptual spaces. Still, ViCoS allows users to easily switch between the conceptual space that it embodies and the lexical space of LEXUS which makes the study of language and culture more integrated.
To switch from LEXUS to ViCoS, use the top menu option Switch to> .
ViCoS is currently not actively developed by the TLA.
The ViCoS manual can be found on the TLA webpage .