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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, page 153--171. Cham, Springer International Publishing, (2015)

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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