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

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10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03086.x
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2012
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2.5
通讯作者:
Bernhard
Bernhard
中科院分区:
计算机科学4区
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Rohrdantz;Christian;Michael;Thomas;Daniel A;Wälchli;Bernhard

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本文提出了一种新的视觉分析方法,可以帮助语言学研究人员在几个重要任务方面探索世界上的语言:(1)跨语言和在语言系谱背景下对人工和自动提取的语言特征进行比较;(2)探索这些特征之间的相互关系以及它们在语言系谱子树中的同质性和异质性;(3)探索系谱和地域对特征的影响。我们介绍了world’s languagesexplorer,它在一个可视化分析环境中提供了所需的功能。我们为系统的不同部分做出了贡献:我们引入了一个扩展的Sunburst可视化,其所谓的特征环允许在语言谱系的分层上下文中同时对大量特征进行交叉比较。我们建议将同质性度量映射到层次结构的所有级别。此外,我们建议将区域数据空间中的信息整合到层次数据空间中。通过我们的方法,我们将视觉分析研究带入了一个新的应用领域,即历史比较语言学和语言与区域类型学。最后,我们通过领域专家进行的两个应用案例研究,证明了我们的系统在该领域的良好性能。
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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