The World's Languages Explorer: Visual Analysis of Language Features in Genealogical and Areal Contexts
The World's Languages Explorer: Visual Analysis of Language Features in Genealogical and Areal Contexts
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世界语言探索者:谱系和地区语境中语言特征的可视化分析
DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03086.x
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发表时间:
2012
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2.5
通讯作者:
Bernhard
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作者:
Rohrdantz;Christian;Michael;Thomas;Daniel A;Wälchli;Bernhard
This paper presents a novel Visual Analytics approach that helps linguistic researchers to explore the world's languages with respect to several important tasks: (1) The comparison of manually and automatically extracted language features across languages and within the context of language genealogy, (2) the exploration of interrelations among several of such features as well as their homogeneity and heterogeneity within subtrees of the language genealogy, and (3) the exploration of genealogical and areal influences on the features. We introduce theWorld'sLanguagesExplorer, which provides the required functionalities in one single Visual Analytics environment. Contributions are made for different parts of the system: We introduce an extended Sunburst visualization whose so‐called feature‐rings allow for a cross‐comparison of a large number of features at once, within the hierarchical context of the language genealogy. We suggest a mapping of homogeneity measures to all levels of the hierarchy. In addition, we suggest an integration of information from the areal data space into the hierarchical data space. With our approach we bring Visual Analytics research to a new application field, namely Historical Comparative Linguistics, and Linguistic and Areal Typology. Finally, we provide evidence of the good performance of our system in this area through two application case studies conducted by domain experts.
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2012
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作者:
Bernhard Wälchli
通讯作者:
Bernhard Wälchli
DOI:
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发表时间:
2007
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影响因子:
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作者:
Michael Cysouw;Bernhard Wälchli
通讯作者:
Bernhard Wälchli
影响因子:
2.1
作者:
M. Dryer
通讯作者:
M. Dryer
DOI:
10.1109/infvis.2003.1249030
发表时间:
2003
期刊:
IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003 (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8714)
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作者:
F. V. Ham
通讯作者:
F. V. Ham
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2008
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作者:
P. Juola
通讯作者:
P. Juola