Title
Designing Close and Distant Reading Visualizations for Text Re-use.
Abstract
We present various visualizations for the Text Re-use found among texts of a collection to support answering a broad palette of research questions in the humanities. When juxtaposing all texts of a corpus in form of tuples, we propose the Text Re-use Grid as a distant reading method that emphasizes text tuples with systematic or repetitive Text Re-use. The Text Re-use Browser provides a closer look on the Text Re-use between the two texts of a tuple. Additionally, we present Text Re-use Alignment Visualizations to improve the readability of Text Variant Graphs that are used to compare various text editions to each other. Finally, we illustrate the benefit of the proposed visualizations with four usage scenarios for various topics in literary criticism.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-25117-2_10
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Text Re-use,Text visualization,Text variant graph,Literary criticism,Digital humanities
Graph,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Tuple,Computer science,Readability,Digital humanities,Literary criticism,Grid
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
550
1865-0929
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Jänicke15516.71
Thomas Efer221.07
Marco Büchler3183.14
Gerik Scheuermann41382112.65