Alan E. Turner

User-directed Sentiment Analysis: Visualizing the Affective Content of Documents

Recent advances in text analysis have led to finer-grained semantic analysis, including automatic sentiment analysis---the task of measuring documents, or chunks of text, based on emotive categories, such as positive or negative. However, considerably less progress has been made on efficient ways of exploring these measurements. This paper discusses approaches for visualizing the affective content of documents and describes an interactive capability for exploring emotion in a large document collection.

Analysis experiences using information visualization

Professional analysts deal with a high volume of information and must constantly work to separate out the valuable data. However, analysts have difficulty determining what data is useful without reading or skimming almost all returned documents from a search. This presents them with a difficult tradeoff. Searching information broadly returns hundreds or thousands of documents. We present lessons learned from an observational study of the application of the InSpire visually oriented text exploitation system in an operational analysis environment.

IN-SPIRE InfoVis 2004 Contest Entry

This is the first part (summary) of a three-part contest entry submitted to IEEE InfoVis 2004. The contest topic is visualizing InfoVis symposium papers from 1995 to 2002 and their references. The paper introduces the visualization tool IN-SPIRE, the visualization process and results, and presents lessons learned.

Turning the bucket of text into a pipe

Many visual analysis tools operate on a fixed set of data. However, professional information analysts follow issues over a period of time and need to be able to easily add new documents to an ongoing exploration. Some analysts handle documents in a moving window of time, with new documents constantly added and old ones aging out. This paper describes both the user interaction and the technical implementation approach for a visual analysis system designed to support constantly evolving text collections.

Beyond the desktop: diversity and artistry

Two key challenges will rapidly change the character of computing: the growing divergence of computer platforms and the increasing use of rich media in engaging users. As human-computer interaction (HCI) professionals, we must consider the difficulties of designing systems that will run on both tiny hand-held devices and large wall displays. We must also keep in mind that the emerging generation of users not only expects but demands that systems be engaging, entertaining, and contain a variety of media types. The role of artists and media professionals on software development teams will increase and the skills of these team members will be necessary to deliver the values, esthetics, and overall quality of experience that future systems require.

Access and retrieval of digital content

This chapter describes a vision for the near future in digital content, its usage,formats,and influences on society. Not surprisingly,the broad appeal of the WWW has influenced this vision.There is a new human information discourse emerging [1-3]. There are masses of information and digital libraries becoming available. There are rapidly evolving segments of cultures changing everything from the fundamental relationship between buying and selling basic living products such as food and clothing to learning through experiential play. Digital content,at the core of the revolution, is multinational and knows no barriers.lt will become the common language crossing and sharing between cultures. Digital content will be the currency for these new societies. This currency, along with the natural human drive that defines the motivation for this revolution — people sharing experiences with people facilitated by digital media — will provide the fuel for his revolution. How we create it, how we manage it, how we play and learn with it, and how we distribute digital content will define part of this cultural revolution. Equally important is the realization of who will create the content — the youth of the world. This chapter first addresses changing foundations for digital content, then changing societal trends, followed by some core changes in digital content, and finally the top challenges for digital media.

Advanced Publishing Technologies and Services

The sections in this article are 1 Desktop Publishing 2 The Future of Print Publishing 3 Online Publishing 4 The Future of Online Publishing 5 Conclusion