What's being said near "Martha"? Exploring name entities in literary text collections

A common task in literary analysis is to study characters in a novel or collection. Automatic entity extraction, text analysis and effective user interfaces facilitate character analysis. Using our interface, called POSvis, the scholar uses word clouds and self-organizing graphs to review vocabulary...

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Published in:2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology pp. 107 - 114
Main Authors: Vuillemot, R., Clement, T., Plaisant, C., Kumar, A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.10.2009
Subjects:
Design
Experimentation
Filters
Graphical user interfaces
Human Factors
Sections
Speech
Tag clouds
Text analysis
User interfaces
Visual analytics
Vocabulary
ISBN:9781424452835, 142445283X
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Summary:A common task in literary analysis is to study characters in a novel or collection. Automatic entity extraction, text analysis and effective user interfaces facilitate character analysis. Using our interface, called POSvis, the scholar uses word clouds and self-organizing graphs to review vocabulary, to filter by part of speech, and to explore the network of characters located near characters under review. Further, visualizations show word usages within an analysis window (i.e. a book chapter), which can be compared with a reference window (i.e. the whole book). We describe the interface and report on an early case study with a humanities scholar.
ISBN:9781424452835
142445283X
DOI:10.1109/VAST.2009.5333248