Facilitating discourse analysis with interactive visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2639-2648

  Zhao, Jian ^a   Chevalier, Fanny ^a,b   Collins, Christopher ^c   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OCAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

computational linguisitics; Discourse structure; interaction techniques; tree comparison; visual analytics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISITICS; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; TREE COMPARISON; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; FORESTRY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; TEXT PROCESSING;

VISUALIZATION;

DATA; FORESTRY; LANGUAGES; PROCESSING; RESEARCH; STRUCTURES;

EID: 84867644146     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.226     Document Type: Article

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