A Compact Interactive Visualization of Dependency Treebank Query Results

Chris Culy, Marco Passarotti, Ulla König-Cardanobile


Abstract
One of the challenges of corpus querying is making sense of the results of a query, especially when a large number of results and linguistically annotated data are concerned. While the most widespread tools for querying syntactically annotated corpora tend to focus on single occurrences, one aspect that is not fully exploited yet in this area is that language is a complex system whose units are connected to each other at both microscopic (the single occurrences) and macroscopic level (the whole system itself). Assuming that language is a system, we describe a tool (using the DoubleTreeJS visualization) to visualize the results of querying dependency treebanks by forming a node from a single item type, and building a network in which the heads and the dependents of the central node are respectively the left and the right vertices of the tree, which are connected to the central node by dependency relations. One case study is presented, consisting in the exploitation of DoubleTreeJS for supporting one assumption in theoretical linguistics with evidence provided by the data of a dependency treebank of Medieval Latin.
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L14-1502
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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759–766
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/63_Paper.pdf
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Chris Culy, Marco Passarotti, and Ulla König-Cardanobile. 2014. A Compact Interactive Visualization of Dependency Treebank Query Results. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 759–766, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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A Compact Interactive Visualization of Dependency Treebank Query Results (Culy et al., LREC 2014)
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