Articulate: A semi-automated model for translating natural language queries into meaningful visualizations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6133 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 184-195

  Sun, Yiwen ^a   Leigh, Jason ^a   Johnson, Andrew ^a   Lee, Sangyoon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic visualization; Conversational interface; Natural language processing; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELS; AUTOMATIC VISUALIZATION; COMPLEX DATA; CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; GRAPH GENERATION; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; SEMI-AUTOMATED; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 79956271024     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13544-6_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Silicon Republic News, http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/14758/ randd/googles-top-inventor-says-talking-computers-are-the-future
2. Ebert, D., Gaither, K., Gilpin, C.: Enabling science discoveries through visual exploration. In: NSF Workshop report, Washington, D.C (2007)
3. Zue, V., Glass, J.R.: Conversational Interfaces: Advances and Challenges. Proceedings of the IEEE, 1166-1180 (2000)
4. Mackinlay, J.D., Hanrahan, P., Stolte, C.: Show me: Automatic presentation for visual analysis. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics 13, 1137-1144 (2007) (Pubitemid 350076582)
5. Salama, C.R., Keller, M., Kohlmann, P.: High-level user interfaces for transfer function design with semantics. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics 12, 1021-1028 (2006) (Pubitemid 44955633)
6. Santos, E., Lins, L., Ahrens, J., Freire, J., Silva, C.: VisMashup: Streamlining the Creation of Custom Visualization Applications. IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15, 1539-1546 (2009)
7. Zue, V., Seneff, S., Glass, J.R., Polifroni, J., Pao, C., Hazen, T.J., Hetherington, L.: JUPlTER: a telephone-based conversational interface for weather information. IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing 8, 85-96 (2000) (Pubitemid 30540738)
8. Seneff, S., Polifroni, J.: Dialogue management in the Mercury flight reservation system. In: ANLP/NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational systems, pp. 11-16 (2000)
9. Sherwani, J., Ali, N., Tongia, R., Rosenfeld, R., Memon, Y., Karim, M., Pappas, G.: Health- Line: Towards Speech-based Access to Health Information by Semi-literate Users. In: Proc Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments, Singapore (2007)
10. Cox, K., Grinter, R.E., Hibino, S.L., Jagadeesan, L.J., Mantilla, D.: A Multi-Modal Natural Language Interface to an Information Visualization Environment. J. of Speech Technology 4, 297-314 (2001) (Pubitemid 32968807)
11. Wolfram Research, http://www.wolframalpha.com
12. The Stanford Parser, http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/lex-parser.shtml
13. Abela, A.: Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication that Drives Action. Pfeiffer (2008)
14. Tukey, J.W.: Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1977)
15. Quinlan, J.R.: C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (1993)
16. WordNet, http://wordnet.princeton.edu/