The Living Lexicon

Picture Urban Dictionary + The Wayback Machine. That is The Living Lexicon. It is a community driven archive that tracks the change in a meaning of a word over time.

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Inspiration

Digital archives like The Wayback Machine and user-run dictionaries like Urban Dictionary.

What it does

Takes in user submissions for definitions and words, uses an AI scraper to generate a summary by era, and visualizes trends over time using a MUI X graph.

How we built it

MockPlus mock-up and React + Vite for the front-end.

Challenges we ran into

UI design, navigation, Github repository setup, getting everyone set up with the right software.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Following a mock-up and turning it into our website design, learning how to use React, Vite, and tsx. Also learning ShadCN and MUI X.

What's next for The Living Lexicon

Creating two separate back-ends. The first using Firebase for user authentication and word storage. The second running off Python + Flask and using an LLM to scrape user submissions and generate a summarized definition.

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