Multi-Mosaics: Corpus Summarizing and Exploration using multiple Concordance Mosaic Visualisations

TL;DR

Multi-Mosaics is a novel visualization tool that enables detailed corpus analysis by linking multiple concordance mosaics, aiding researchers in exploring linguistic relationships within text corpora more effectively.

Contribution

The paper introduces Multi-Mosaics, a new tool that links multiple concordance mosaic visualizations for enhanced corpus exploration and analysis.

Findings

Supports examining linguistic relationships within context windows

Enables linking multiple visualizations for comprehensive analysis

Facilitates semi-automated corpus exploration

Abstract

Researchers working in areas such as lexicography, translation studies, and computational linguistics, use a combination of automated and semi-automated tools to analyze the content of text corpora. Keywords, named entities, and events are often extracted automatically as the first step in the analysis. Concordancing -- or the arranging of passages of a textual corpus in alphabetical order according to user-defined keywords -- is one of the oldest and still most widely used forms of text analysis. This paper describes Multi-Mosaics, a tool for corpus analysis using multiple implicitly linked Concordance Mosaic visualisations. Multi-Mosaics supports examining linguistic relationships within the context windows surrounding extracted keywords.