D02 | Visual Analytics for Linguistic Representations
Within linguistics, the use of large sets of data via a combination of rule-based and stochastic methods is now standardly part of the analysis of language structure. However, though scatter plots, bar or pie charts, and trees as provided by R, for example, are standardly used, novel visual computation techniques have only just begun to be explored. The overall aim of this project is to evaluate whether visual analytics indeed represents a methodology that can yield improved results for linguistic research and to establish metrics for the evaluation of visual analytics approaches by conducting linguistically motivated case studies on historical data.
Research Questions
What visual variables and representations are most effective for which problems?
Which metrics for evaluation can be established?
What visual variables and representations are most effective for which problems?
Can visual analytic methods yield improved results within linguistic research?
Can we find linguistic patterns/insights we could not have found without visual analytics?
Can we find patterns/insights more quickly with visual analytics than without?
Fig. 1: Glyph visualization of dative subjects and semantic verb classes in Icelandic.
Publications
- M.-M. Zymla, K. Kruschwitz, and P. Zodl, “An instructive implementation of semantic parsing and reasoning using Lexical Functional Grammar,” in Proceedings of the 2nd Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated Reasoning Workshop (BriGap-2), 2025.
- M. Butt, L. Carnesale, and T. Ahmed, “Experiencers vs. agents in Urdu/Hindi nominalized verbs of perception,” in Proceedings of the Lexical Functional Grammar Conference, 2023, pp. 90–113. doi: 10.18148/lfg/2023.v28i.46.
- C. Beck and M. Köllner, “GHisBERT – Training BERT from scratch for lexical semantic investigations across historical German language stages.” Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 33–45, Dec. 2023. doi: 10.18653/v1/2023.lchange-1.4.
- H. Booth and C. Beck, “Verb-second and Verb-first in the History of Icelandic,” Journal of Historical Syntax, vol. 5, Art. no. 27, 2021, doi: 10.18148/hs/2021.v5i28.112.
- R. Sevastjanova, A.-L. Kalouli, C. Beck, H. Schäfer, and M. El-Assady, “Explaining Contextualization in Language Models using Visual Analytics.” Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 464–476, Aug. 2021. doi: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.39.
- C. Beck, “DiaSense at SemEval-2020 Task 1: Modeling Sense Change via Pre-trained BERT Embeddings.” International Committee for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 50–58, Dec. 2020. doi: 10.18653/v1/2020.semeval-1.4.
- C. Schätzle and M. Butt, “Visual analytics for historical linguistics: opportunities and challenges,” Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, 2020, doi: 10.46298/jdmdh.6707.
- C. Beck, H. Booth, M. El-Assady, and M. Butt, “Representation Problems in Linguistic Annotations: Ambiguity, Variation, Uncertainty, Error and Bias,” in Proceedings of the 14th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Barcelona, Spain: Association for Computational Linguistics, Dec. 2020, pp. 60–73. [Online]. Available: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.law-1.6
- C. Schätzle, F. L. Dennig, M. Blumenschein, D. A. Keim, and M. Butt, “Visualizing Linguistic Change as Dimension Interactions.” Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 272–278, 2019. doi: 10.18653/v1/w19-4734.
- C. Schätzle and H. Booth, “DiaHClust: an Iterative Hierarchical Clustering Approach for Identifying Stages in Language Change.” Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 126–135, 2019. doi: 10.18653/v1/w19-4716.
- H. Booth and C. Schätzle, “The Syntactic Encoding of Information Structure in the History of Icelandic,” in Proceedings of the LFG’19 Conference, M. Butt, T. H. King, and I. Toivonen, Eds., CSLI Publications, 2019, pp. 69–89. [Online]. Available: http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/LFG-2019/lfg2019-booth-schaetzle.pdf
- C. Schätzle, “Dative Subjects: Historical Change Visualized,” Konstanz, 2018. [Online]. Available: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1d917i4avuz1a2
- A. Hautli-Janisz, C. Rohrdantz, C. Schätzle, A. Stoffel, M. Butt, and D. A. Keim, “Visual Analytics in Diachronic Linguistic Investigations,” Linguistic Visualizations, 2018.
- C. Schätzle, M. Hund, F. L. Dennig, M. Butt, and D. A. Keim, “HistoBankVis: Detecting Language Change via Data Visualization,” in Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop Processing Historical Language, G. Bouma and Y. Adesam, Eds., Linköping University Electronic Press, 2017, pp. 32–39. [Online]. Available: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0507
- C. Schätzle, “Genitiv als Stilmittel in der Novelle,” Scalable Reading. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi), vol. 47, pp. 125–140, 2017, doi: 10.1007/s41244-017-0043-9.
- H. Booth, C. Schätzle, K. Börjars, and M. Butt, “Dative Subjects and the Rise of Positional Licensing in Icelandic,” in Proceedings of the LFG’17 Conference, 2017, pp. 104–124. [Online]. Available: http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/LFG-2017/lfg2017-bsbb.pdf
- C. Schätzle and D. Sacha, “Visualizing Language Change: Dative Subjects in Icelandic,” in Proceedings of the LREC 2016 Workshop VisLRII: Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources, 2016, pp. 8–15. [Online]. Available: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/workshops/LREC2016Workshop-VisLR%20II_Proceedings.pdf
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Models and Measures
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Adaptive Algorithms
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Interaction
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