Exploring and visualizing variation in language resources

Konferenzbeitrag

Language resources are often compiled for the purpose of variational analysis, such as studying differences between genres, registers, and disciplines, regional and diachronic variation, influence of gender, cultural context, etc. Often the sheer number of potentially interesting contrastive pairs can get overwhelming due to the combinatorial explosion of possible combinations. In this paper, we present an approach that combines well understood techniques for visualization heatmaps and word clouds with intuitive paradigms for exploration drill down and side by side comparison to facilitate the analysis of language variation in such highly combinatorial situations. Heatmaps assist in analyzing the overall pattern of variation in a corpus, and word clouds allow for inspecting variation at the level of words.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Amerikanisches Englisch ; Englisch ; Korpus <Linguistik> ; Sprachvariante ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Visualisierung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fankhauser, Peter ; Knappen, Jörg ; Teich, Elke
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Reykjavik : European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
• (when): 2014-06-13

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-26224
• Last update: 06.03.2025, 9:00 AM CET