14 - 19 OCTOBER, 2012. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA

LensingWikipedia: Parsing Text for the Interactive Visualization of Human History

Contributors: 
Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Maryam Siahbani, Anoop Sarkar, John Dill
Description
Extracting information from text is challenging. Most current practices treat text as a bag of words or word clusters, ignoring valuable linguistic information. Leveraging this linguistic information, we propose a novel approach to visualize textual information. The novelty lies in using state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to automatically annotate text which provides a basis for new and powerful interactive visualizations. Using NLP tools, we built a web-based interactive visual browser for human history articles from Wikipedia.