Visualizing content based relations in texts

Author

Weippl, Edgar

Author_Institution

Software Competence Center, Hagenberg, Austria

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

41

Abstract

Our goal is to efficiently visualize a medium sized hypertext database containing 500-20000 articles. The visualization technique we propose is an information landscape. Basically, the information landscape maps texts into a 2D plane so that related texts are placed next to each other. The hypertexts´ location is calculated according to their content and not according to their links. Combining already published algorithms, the clustering works very well. An important issue, however, is a well-designed user interface (UI). The article presents two 2D interfaces and an improved 3D version. The paper covers all aspects from preprocessing and clustering to the final UI and its functionality

Keywords

data visualisation; document handling; graphical user interfaces; hypermedia; information retrieval; multimedia databases; 2D interfaces; 2D plane; content based relation visualization; final UI; hypertext location; improved 3D version; information landscape; medium sized hypertext database; preprocessing; text mapping; texts; user interface; visualization technique; Clustering algorithms; Conference proceedings; Information analysis; Navigation; Organizing; Testing; Text categorization; User interfaces; Visual databases; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

User Interface Conference, 2001. AUIC 2001. Proceedings. Second Australasian

Conference_Location

Gold Coast, Qld.

ISSN

1530-0951

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0969-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUIC.2001.906274

Filename

906274