Community Embraces New Word Game at Mid-Year Play Day This past Sunday, families at Takoma Park’s Seventh Annual Mid-Year Play Day had the opportunity to experience OtherWordly for the first time. Our educational language game drew curious children and parents to our table throughout the afternoon. Words in Space Several children gathered around our iPads […]
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Build smarter language features with semantic intelligence—the backbone for next-generation word games, adaptive learning, and AI training. Go beyond definitions and trite associations, with 100 million semantic relationships that probe various creative ways words actually connect.
Break Free from Banal
LLMs democratized how we all work with language, but they have a fundamental limitation: they generate what’s probable, not what’s possible or interesting.
How does this problem look? Ask GPT-4 for words related to “independence” and you’ll get predictable results: freedom, liberty, autonomy, sovereignty. Technically correct but creatively limited. What about parade, nationhood, unbound, democracy, or resilience?
Your product may need semantic intelligence to reach the next level.
Navigate the Nuances
Language is a fascinating minefield of problems, but you can skip the human lexicographic team. There are thousands of outright crude and vulgar terms, but many more are contextual. Exotic for fruit, not for women. Buckwheat for cereal, not for hair.
While an LLM won’t volunteer that “stroking” might be problematic for a family game, it will if your workflow knew to ask it that question. Same for “areola.” Get IDEA’s semantic intelligence, and all this work has been done already for you.
Level Up Your Language
Here are some ways IDEA’s semantic intelligence can help you deploy sophisticated language products:
- For Game Developers — Build idea-linking games with mechanics that draw on the meanings and relationships of words. Work from sophisticated hard and soft block-lists. Add natural-sounding definitions. Dynamically adapt vocabulary difficulty. Work with content that feels fresh, not mechanical or repetitive.
- For EdTech Companies — Upgrade reading or literacy apps with ways to show how concepts inter-relate. Empower your content developers to create new kinds of semantic-centric lessons at scale. More intuitively adapt to the student’s vocabulary level.
- For AI/ML Teams — Add a new ground truth to counteract noise and bias in training data. Use our clean, structured semantic relationships built from expert knowledge to train and validate models.
Built Different: Human Expertise + AI Validation
The unique value of IDEA’s semantic intelligence comes from a workflow built on 70+ human-curated sources, cross-analyzed. We discovered that asking an LLM “What relates to coffee?” yields predictable answers: beverage, caffeine, morning. But the Library of Congress classification system revealed that ‘coffee’ appears in 2,542 different book classifications—linking to ‘fair trade certification’ in economics texts, ‘coffee berry borer’ in Hawaiian agriculture books, and ‘import tariffs’ in trade policy publications.
By aggregating expert knowledge from lexicographers, scientists, librarians, and researchers—then using modern LLMs to validate and expand these connections—we capture human creativity and expertise that AI alone consistently misses. Show how coffee connects with fair trade, not just lattes. How algorithms relate to dance music and stock trading, not just coding. How independence links to elderly care and energy grids, not just freedom.
Foundation for Innovation
IDEA’s semantic intelligence powers our own award-winning games, demonstrating its effectiveness in real-world applications. Our Linguabase—the complete semantic network of 1.5 million words—enables players to navigate from “Batman” to “inspect” through intuitive connections like vigilante → watchful → circumspect. This same infrastructure that makes our games possible is available to partners building the next generation of language applications. Whether you’re creating educational technology, training AI models, or developing new forms of interactive content, you’re building on a foundation that’s been refined through millions of gameplay sessions and validated by real users discovering the joy of semantic exploration.
What You Get
- Core Data — Up to 1.5 million headwords, from common to obscure, including compounds and phrases, and up to 80 relationships for each, split into senses and contextual flavors.
- Idea-linking Data — Drive an idea-linking game with semantic pathfinding to create routes between two words like in “In Other Words,” or play with sets of related words like in “OtherWordly.”
- Personalization Data — Adapt your vocabulary to the player with 15 tiers of difficulty, serving hundreds of millions of non-native English speakers and English learners, not just word mavens. Stop guessing if “quixotic” is too hard for 8th graders.
- Content Safety — Get nuanced filtering with thousands of clearly offensive terms, plus thousands more like “shag” and “screw” that need extra attention but have many benign uses.
Easy to Partner
We’d love to talk about how to package semantic intelligence in a way your engineering team can directly use.
Available as:
- API access with pathfinding, difficulty scoring, and safety checking
- Full database license for deep integration
- Custom subsets for specific domains or difficulty ranges
Licensing revenue directly supports our mission to make language learning engaging for everyone.
We want to be your partner as you build something extraordinary with language. Let’s explore how semantic intelligence can transform your product.