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SUMMARY:Vortrag | Prof. Dr. Christopher Collins, University of Ontario
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nSprecher\n\nProf. Dr. Christopher Collins\nUniversity of Ontario\n\n\n\n\nTitel\n\n\nFinding What to Read: Visual Text Analytics Tools and Techniques to Guide Investigation\n\n\n\n \n\nText is one of the most prominent forms of open data available, from social media to legal\ncases. Text visualizations are often critiqued for not being useful, for being unstructured and\npresenting data out of context (think: word clouds). I argue that we should not expect them to be a\nreplacement for reading. In this talk I will briefly discuss the close/distant reading debate then\nfocus on where I think text visualization can be useful: hypothesis generation and guiding\ninvestigation. Text visualization can help someone form questions about a large text collection,\nthen drill down to investigate through targeted reading of the underlying source texts. Over the\npast 10 years my research focus has been primarily on creating techniques and systems for text\nanalytics using visualization, across domains as diverse as legal studies, poetics, social media,\nand automotive safety. I will review several of my past projects with particular attention to the\ncapabilities and limitations of the technologies and tools we used, how we use semantics to\nstructure visualizations, and the importance of providing interactive links to the source\nmaterials. In addition, I will discuss the design challenges which, while common across\nvisualization, are particularly important with text (legibility, label fitting, finding appropriate\nlevels of ‘zoom’). \n\nSpeaker’s Bio\nDr. Christopher Collins is the Canada Research Chair in Linguistic Information Visualization and\nan Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology\n(UOIT). His research focus is interdisciplinary, combining information visualization and\nhuman-computer interaction with natural language processing to address the challenges of\ninformation management and the problems of information overload. His work has been published in\nmany venues including IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and has been\nfeatured in popular media such as the Toronto Star and the New York Times Magazine. Dr. Collins is\na past member of the executive of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee and the\nIEEE VIS Conference Organizing Committee, and received his PhD in Computer Science from the\nUniversity of Toronto.\n\n\n\n  \nSee  \nhttp://www.sfbtrr161.de/events/events.html for\nall events of the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 161 
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20161207T103000
LOCATION:Seminar room (00.012) of the VISUS Building, Allmandring 19, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, , , ,
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/Vortrag-Prof.-Dr.-Christopher-Collins-University-of-Ontario/
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