Dörk, Marian and Knight, Dawn  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4745-6502
2015.
WordWanderer: A navigational approach to text visualisation.
Corpora
10
(1)
, pp. 83-94.
10.3366/cor.2015.0067
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Abstract
Text visualisations provide visual representations of documents or small corpora with the primary aim of supporting language analysis. We are interested in developing a more playful approach to language that can be characterised by the notion of wandering as an open-ended movement. To support such a casual form of engagement with text, we designed the WordWanderer system: a visualisation technique that extends tag clouds into a navigational interface for text. The tool supports the gradual movement between word ‘context views’, which represent the words that co-occur in the vicinity of the selected word, and word-‘comparison views’, which arrange words based on their association strengths between two selected words. We report on the encouraging feedback from a ten-day deployment of the interface and present promising directions for future design and research.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Corpus linguistics; text analysis; information visualisation; digital humanities; exploratory search |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| ISSN: | 1749-5032 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | April 2014 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2024 10:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/72340 |
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