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Legacy software documents are hard to understand and visualize. The tag cloud technique helps software developers to visualize the contents of software documents. A tag cloud is a well-known and simple visualization technique. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Ra'Fat Al-Msie'deen

Exploratory analysis of a text corpus is essential for assessing data quality and developing meaningful hypotheses. Text analysis relies on understanding documents through structured attributes spanning various granularities of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Will Epperson , Arpit Mathur , Adam Perer , Dominik Moritz

Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with disabilities. However, it is difficult to evaluate the usefulness…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Alan Lundgard , Arvind Satyanarayan

Generating word (tag) clouds is a powerful data visualization technique that allows people to get easily acquainted with the content of a large collection of textual documents and identify their subject domains for a matter of seconds,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yordan Kalmukov

Visual analytics (VA) workflows are inherently complex, involving data transformation, feature engineering, visual representation, and human interpretation. They are typically described in unstructured prose, hindering systematic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Natalia Andrienko , Gennady Andrienko , Jürgen Bernard , Michael Sedlmair

Passive documents and active programs now widely comingle. Document languages include Turing-complete programming elements, and programming languages include sophisticated document notations. However, there are no formal foundations that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Will Crichton , Shriram Krishnamurthi

Increasing amounts of structured data can provide value for research and business if the relevant data can be located. Often the data is in a data lake without a consistent schema, making locating useful data challenging. Table search is a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Michael Glass , Sugato Bagchi , Oktie Hassanzadeh , Gaetano Rossiello , Alfio Gliozzo

Visual metaphors are powerful rhetorical devices used to persuade or communicate creative ideas through images. Similar to linguistic metaphors, they convey meaning implicitly through symbolism and juxtaposition of the symbols. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tuhin Chakrabarty , Arkadiy Saakyan , Olivia Winn , Artemis Panagopoulou , Yue Yang , Marianna Apidianaki , Smaranda Muresan

The analysis of the practices and the tendencies of the users at the time of the search for information on Internet makes it possible to highlight several points. The search for information becomes powerful after knowledge of the typology…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-06-14 Marie-France Ango-Obiang

There has been a significant effort by the research community to address the problem of providing methods to organize documentation with the help of information Retrieval methods. In this report paper, we present several experiments with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Rui Portocarrero Sarmento , Douglas O. Cardoso , João Gama , Pavel Brazdil

We apply an approach from cognitive linguistics by mapping Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) to the visualization domain to address patterns of visual conceptual metaphors that are often used in science infographics. Metaphors play an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Hana Pokojná , Tobias Isenberg , Stefan Bruckner , Barbora Kozlíková , Laura Garrison

AI search depends on linking large language models (LLMs) with vast external knowledge sources. Yet web pages, PDF files, and other raw documents are not inherently LLM-ready: they are long, noisy, and unstructured. Conventional retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hongjin Qian , Zheng Liu

The aim of visualization is to support people in dealing with large and complex information structures, to make these structures more comprehensible, facilitate exploration, and enable knowledge discovery. However, users often have problems…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Christina Stoiber , Markus Wagner , Florian Grassinger , Margit Pohl , Holger Stitz , Marc Streit , Benjamin Potzmann , Wolfgang Aigner

Communicating complex system designs or scientific processes through text alone is inefficient and prone to ambiguity. A system that automatically generates scientific architecture diagrams from text with high semantic fidelity can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Shivank Garg , Sankalp Mittal , Manish Gupta

Transcription, annotation, digitization and/or visualization are common transformations that historical documents such as national records, birth/death registers, university records, letters or books undergo. Reasons for those…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Tomas Vancisin , Mary Orr , Uta Hinrichs

As global cross-lingual communication intensifies, language barriers in visually rich documents such as PDFs remain a practical bottleneck. Existing document translation pipelines face a tension between linguistic processing and layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qi Yang , Xiangyao Ma , Xiao Wang , Hao Wang , Rui Wang

Classic Topic Models are built under the Bag Of Words assumption, in which word position is ignored for simplicity. Besides, symmetric priors are typically used in most applications. In order to easily learn topics with different properties…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Simón Roca-Sotelo , Jerónimo Arenas-García

Document clustering is a text mining technique used to provide better document search and browsing in digital libraries or online corpora. A lot of research has been done on biomedical document clustering that is based on using existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Setu Shah , Xiao Luo

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content, the task of summarizing multimedia documents, which encompass textual, visual, and auditory elements, presents intricate challenges. These challenges include extracting pertinent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Azze-Eddine Maredj , Madjid Sadallah

We present a framework to analyze color documents of complex layout. In addition, no assumption is made on the layout. Our framework combines in a content-driven bottom-up approach two different sources of information: textual and spatial.…

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