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We define "visual story-writing" as using visual representations of story elements to support writing and revising narrative texts. To demonstrate this approach, we developed a text editor that automatically visualizes a graph of entity…

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Text classification helps analyse texts for semantic meaning and relevance, by mapping the words against this hierarchy. An analysis of various types of texts is invaluable to understanding both their semantic meaning, as well as their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Chaitanya Chadha , Vandit Gupta , Deepak Gupta , Ashish Khanna

We present a comprehensive survey on the use of annotations in information visualizations, highlighting their crucial role in improving audience understanding and engagement with visual data. Our investigation encompasses empirical studies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Md Dilshadur Rahman , Bhavana Doppalapudi , Ghulam Jilani Quadri , Paul Rosen

Datasets of visualization play a crucial role in automating data-driven visualization pipelines, serving as the foundation for supervised model training and algorithm benchmarking. In this paper, we survey the literature on visualization…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Can Liu , Ruike Jiang , Shaocong Tan , Jiacheng Yu , Chaofan Yang , Hanning Shao , Xiaoru Yuan

Visual text evokes an image in a person's mind, while non-visual text fails to do so. A method to automatically detect visualness in text will enable text-to-image retrieval and generation models to augment text with relevant images. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Gaurav Verma , Ryan A. Rossi , Christopher Tensmeyer , Jiuxiang Gu , Ani Nenkova

Information can be expressed in multiple formats including natural language, images, and motions. Human intelligence usually faces little difficulty to convert from one format to another format, which often shows a true understanding of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ping Chen , Richard Alo , Justin Rundell

Rule sets are often used in Machine Learning (ML) as a way to communicate the model logic in settings where transparency and intelligibility are necessary. Rule sets are typically presented as a text-based list of logical statements…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Jun Yuan , Oded Nov , Enrico Bertini

Natural language and visualization are being increasingly deployed together for supporting data analysis in different ways, from multimodal interaction to enriched data summaries and insights. Yet, researchers still lack systematic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Rafael Henkin , Cagatay Turkay

Ontologies are one of the core foundations of the Semantic Web. To participate in Semantic Web projects, domain experts need to be able to understand the ontologies involved. Visual notations can provide an overview of the ontology and help…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Renārs Liepiņš , Uldis Bojārs , Normunds Grūzītis , Kārlis Čerāns , Edgars Celms

Understanding how helpful a visualization is from experimental results is difficult because the observed performance is confounded with aspects of the study design, such as how useful the information that is visualized is for the task. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yifan Wu , Ziyang Guo , Michails Mamakos , Jason Hartline , Jessica Hullman

We present our in-progress work on co-designing a visualization tool for presenting unstructured text. We have conducted a focus group with a variety of professionals who regularly analyze large corpora of unstructured text. Our preliminary…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Beck Langstone , Fateme Rajabiyazdi

Automatic text summarization has experienced substantial progress in recent years. With this progress, the question has arisen whether the types of summaries that are typically generated by automatic summarization models align with users'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Maartje ter Hoeve , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke

This report documents the results found through surveys and interviews on how visualizations help the employees in their workspace. The objectives of this study were to get in-depth knowledge on what prepares an employee to have the right…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Rajath Chikkatur Srinivasa , Supriya Arun , Lauren James , Ying Zhu

We revisit the design space of visualizations aiming at identifying and relating its components. In this sense, we establish a model to examine the process through which visualizations become expressive for users. This model has leaded us…

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Robust visualization of complex data is critical for the effective use of NLP for event classification, as the volume of data is large and the high-dimensional structure of text makes data challenging to summarize succinctly. In event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sophia Henn , Abigail Sticha , Timothy Burley , Ernesto Verdeja , Paul Brenner

Infographics are visual representations designed for efficient and effective communication of data and knowledge. One crucial aspect of infographic design is the interplay between text and visual elements, particularly in circular…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Shuqi He , Yuqing Chen , Yuxin Xia , Yichun Li , Hai-Ning Liang , Lingyun Yu

Understanding a visualization is a multi-level process. A reader must extract and extrapolate from numeric facts, understand how those facts apply to both the context of the data and other potential contexts, and draw or evaluate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alyxander Burns , Cindy Xiong , Steven Franconeri , Alberto Cairo , Narges Mahyar

Speech is one of the interaction modalities that we increasingly come across in natural user interfaces. However, its use in collaborative scenarios has not yet been thoroughly investigated. In this reflection statement, we discuss the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Gabriela Molina León , Petra Isenberg , Andreas Breiter

Information Visualization techniques are built on a context with many factors related to both vision and cognition, making it difficult to draw a clear picture of how data visually turns into comprehension. In the intent of promoting a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Jose Rodrigues-Jr , Luciana Zaina , Maria Oliveira , Bruno Brandoli , Agma Traina

Data comes in many forms. From a shallow perspective, they can be viewed as being either in structured (e.g., as a relation, as key-value pairs) or unstructured (e.g., text, image) formats. So far, machines have been fairly good at…

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