VarifocalReader - In-depth visual analysis of large text documents

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1723-1732

  Koch, Steffen ^a   John, Markus ^a   Wörner, Michael ^a   Müller, Andreas ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distant reading; Document analysis; Literary analysis; Machine learning; Natural language processing; Text mining; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

DISTANT READINGS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; LITERARY ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TEXT MINING; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84909578799     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346677     Document Type: Article

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