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Designing Close and Distant Reading Visualizations for Text Re-use

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Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics - Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2014)

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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.

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    http://etraces.e-humanities.net/.

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    http://exchange-projekt.de/.

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    Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, http://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/.

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Acknowledgements

The authors like to thank Sarah Bowen (Aga Khan University), who utilized the presented Text Re-use Visualizations for historic Arabic texts, Eva Wöckener-Gade (Leipzig University), who worked with the Text Re-use Alignment Visualization to analyze the various meanings of ancient Greek terms and Annette Geßner (Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities) for the collaboration when designing the Text Re-use Visualizations for English Bible translations. This research was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

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  1. Image and Signal Processing Group, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

    Stefan Jänicke & Gerik Scheuermann

  2. Natural Language Processing Group, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

    Thomas Efer

  3. Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Marco Büchler

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    Sabine Coquillart

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Jänicke, S., Efer, T., Büchler, M., Scheuermann, G. (2015). Designing Close and Distant Reading Visualizations for Text Re-use. In: Battiato, S., Coquillart, S., Pettré, J., Laramee, R., Kerren, A., Braz, J. (eds) Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics - Theory and Applications. VISIGRAPP 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 550. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25117-2_10

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