Open AccessVisualization of Functional-semantic Information: Integrating the Clause and the Discourse
Author(s) -
Hengbin Yan,
Yinghui Li
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal for the study of english linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2329-7034
DOI - 10.5296/jsel.v6i1.13935
Subject(s) - computer science , interface (matter) , visualization , natural language processing , information visualization , semantics (computer science) , semantic analysis (machine learning) , information retrieval , human–computer interaction , artificial intelligence , programming language , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing
In this study, we present our experimental design of an interactive interface that allows users to answer linguistically sophisticated queries utilizing functional-semantic information. Building on previous visualizations of linguistic patterning and discourse structure, the proposed visualization interface presents a unified interface for interrogating the functional-semantic structure of arbitrary texts at different levels of details. To evaluate the effectiveness of the interface, we performed a comparative analysis between visualizations of manual gold-standard annotation and those automatically generated by connecting the interface to existing automatic systems, which revealed remarkable visual correspondence between the two when dealing with small to medium texts. A small-scale case study was then conducted which demonstrated the potential of the resulting tool for effective discovery of interesting patterning in large political texts.