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Visualization of Text Streams: A Survey

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2010)

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This work presents a survey of methods that visualize text streams. Existing methods are classified and compared from the aspect of visualization process. We introduce new aspects of method comparison: data type, text representation, and the temporal drawing approach. The subjectivity of visualization is described, and evaluation methodologies are explained. Related research areas are discussed and some future trends in the field anticipated.

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Šilić, A., Bašić, B.D. (2010). Visualization of Text Streams: A Survey. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15390-7_4

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