The World's Languages Explorer: Visual Analysis of Language Features in Genealogical and Areal Contexts

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dc.contributor.authorRohrdantz, Christianen_US
dc.contributor.authorHund, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorMayer, Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.authorWälchli, Bernharden_US
dc.contributor.authorKeim, Daniel A.en_US
dc.contributor.editorS. Bruckner, S. Miksch, and H. Pfisteren_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T07:01:45Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T07:01:45Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a novel Visual Analytics approach that helps linguistic researchers to explore the world's languages with respect to several important tasks: (1) The comparison of manually and automatically extracted language features across languages and within the context of language genealogy, (2) the exploration of interrelations among several of such features as well as their homogeneity and heterogeneity within subtrees of the language genealogy, and (3) the exploration of genealogical and areal influences on the features. We introduce the WORLD'S LANGUAGES EXPLORER, which provides the required functionalities in one single Visual Analytics environment. Contributions are made for different parts of the system: We introduce an extended Sunburst visualization whose so-called feature-rings allow for a cross-comparison of a large number of features at once, within the hierarchical context of the language genealogy. We suggest a mapping of homogeneity measures to all levels of the hierarchy. In addition, we suggest an integration of information from the areal data space into the hierarchical data space. With our approach we bring Visual Analytics research to a new application field, namely Historical Comparative Linguistics, and Linguistic and Areal Typology. Finally, we provide evidence of the good performance of our system in this area through two application case studies conducted by domain experts.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume31
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03086.x
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03086.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.titleThe World's Languages Explorer: Visual Analysis of Language Features in Genealogical and Areal Contextsen_US
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