Visual Text Analysis in Digital Humanities
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2021) | Viewed by 17128
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since Franco Moretti introduced the term “distant reading”, visualization as a means to quantitatively analyze textual data has become increasingly important for digital humanities applications in recent years. The utility of visualization to verify and generate hypotheses, and to provide new perspectives on text is well-documented in various publications published in different venues. At the same time, there are many open challenges, for example, concerning the visual analysis of large text corpora or the visualization of textual uncertainties.
This Special Issue seeks contributions reporting on recent advancements concerning visual text analysis from scholars who engage in the context of digital humanities and visualization. This includes novel techniques to visually communicate textual features, as well as the discussion of visual exploration frameworks and visual analytics systems that might bear on or combine well-established visualization techniques, but support textual scholars’ tasks for which no appropriate solutions existed before. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Digital close reading;
- Distant readings of text;
- Corpus analysis;
- Discourse analysis;
- News and social media analysis;
- Translation studies;
- Textual variation;
- Text re-use detection and analysis;
- Digital libraries;
- Visual depictions of textual uncertainty (fragmentary availability, imprecise OCR, uncertain metadata, authorship attribution, etc.).
In addition to application-driven contributions, this Special Issue also welcomes submissions with extensive reflections on interdisciplinary collaborations between textual scholars and visualization experts. These papers will act as a guide for researchers working on the intersection of digital humanities and visualization, and will be useful for scholars who follow participatory design approaches involving experts from various research domains.
Dr. Stefan Jänicke
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- text visualization
- close reading visualization
- distant reading visualization
- digital humanities
- visual exploration
- visual text analysis