skip to main content
10.1145/3148330.3154507acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesgroupConference Proceedingsconference-collections
poster

Twenty Thousand Leagues Above the Book: An Interactive Visual Analytics Approach to Literature

Authors Info & Claims
Published:07 January 2018Publication History

ABSTRACT

Here we present a novel tool for the digital humanities that leverages temporal data mining, network science, and visual analytics. Our initial user studies show that this approach facilitates a new collaborative methodological practice that is a hybrid of close and distant reading.

References

  1. Bamman, D., Underwood, T., and Smith, N. A. A bayesian mixed effects model of literary character. In ACL (1) (2014), 370--379.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. Burbules, N. C. Rhetorics of the web: Hyperreading and critical literacy. Page to screen: Taking literacy into the electronic era (1998), 102--122.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. Elson, D. K., Dames, N., and McKeown, K. R. Extracting social networks from literary fiction. In Proceedings of the 48th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics (2010), 138--147. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  4. Luczak-Roesch, M., Tinati, R., and Shadbolt, N. When resources collide: Towards a theory of coincidence in information spaces. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, ACM (2015). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  5. Luczak-Roesch, M., Tinati, R., Van Kleek, M., and Shadbolt, N. From coincidence to purposeful flow? properties of transcendental information cascades. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM ASONAM conference, ACM (2015). Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library
  6. Moretti, F. Network theory, plot analysis. New Left Review (2011).Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  7. Piper, A. The constraints of character. introducing a character feature-space tool. https://txtlab.org/?p=611.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  8. Piper, A. Detecting literary characters. https://txtlab.org/?p=559.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  9. Piper, A. Development of a (semi-) automatic character network tool. https://novel-tm.ca/?p=472.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

Index Terms

  1. Twenty Thousand Leagues Above the Book: An Interactive Visual Analytics Approach to Literature

    Recommendations

    Comments

    Login options

    Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

    Sign in
    • Published in

      cover image ACM Conferences
      GROUP '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
      January 2018
      422 pages
      ISBN:9781450355629
      DOI:10.1145/3148330

      Copyright © 2018 Owner/Author

      Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

      Publisher

      Association for Computing Machinery

      New York, NY, United States

      Publication History

      • Published: 7 January 2018

      Check for updates

      Qualifiers

      • poster

    PDF Format

    View or Download as a PDF file.

    PDF

    eReader

    View online with eReader.

    eReader