Visual readability analysis : how to make your writings easier to read

Oelke, Daniela; Spretke, David; Stoffel, Andreas; Keim, Daniel A.

Visual readability analysis : how to make your writings easier to read

Dateien

Zu diesem Dokument gibt es keine Dateien.

Datum

2012

Publikationstyp

Zeitschriftenartikel

Publikationsstatus

Published

Erschienen in

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2012, 18(5), pp. 662-674. ISSN 1077-2626. eISSN 1941-0506. Available under: doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.266

Zusammenfassung

We present a tool that is specifically designed to support a writer in revising a draft version of a document. In addition to showing which paragraphs and sentences are difficult to read and understand, we assist the reader in understanding why this is the case. This requires features that are expressive predictors of readability, and are also semantically understandable. In the first part of the paper, we, therefore, discuss a semiautomatic feature selection approach that is used to choose appropriate measures from a collection of 141 candidate readability features. In the second part, we present the visual analysis tool VisRA, which allows the user to analyze the feature values across the text and within single sentences. Users can choose between different visual representations accounting for differences in the size of the documents and the availability of information about the physical and logical layout of the documents. We put special emphasis on providing as much transparency as possible to ensure that the user can purposefully improve the readability of a sentence. Several case studies are presented that show the wide range of applicability of our tool. Furthermore, an in-depth evaluation assesses the quality of the measure and investigates how well users do in revising a text with the help of the tool.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

004 Informatik

Zitieren

ISO 690

OELKE, Daniela, David SPRETKE, Andreas STOFFEL, Daniel A. KEIM, 2012. Visual readability analysis : how to make your writings easier to read. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 2012, 18(5), pp. 662-674. ISSN 1077-2626. eISSN 1941-0506. Available under: doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.266

BibTex

@article{Oelke2012-05Visua-22594,
  year={2012},
  doi={10.1109/TVCG.2011.266},
  title={Visual readability analysis : how to make your writings easier to read},
  number={5},
  volume={18},
  issn={1077-2626},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  pages={662--674},
  author={Oelke, Daniela and Spretke, David and Stoffel, Andreas and Keim, Daniel A.}
}

RDF

<rdf:RDF
    xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/"
    xmlns:dspace="http://digital-repositories.org/ontologies/dspace/0.1.0#"
    xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
    xmlns:void="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" > 
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/22594">
    <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://localhost:8080/"/>
    <dc:creator>Keim, Daniel A.</dc:creator>
    <dc:contributor>Keim, Daniel A.</dc:contributor>
    <dc:date rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2013-03-28T14:18:32Z</dc:date>
    <dc:creator>Spretke, David</dc:creator>
    <void:sparqlEndpoint rdf:resource="http://localhost/fuseki/dspace/sparql"/>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/36"/>
    <dcterms:title>Visual readability analysis : how to make your writings easier to read</dcterms:title>
    <dc:contributor>Stoffel, Andreas</dc:contributor>
    <dc:creator>Oelke, Daniela</dc:creator>
    <dcterms:abstract xml:lang="eng">We present a tool that is specifically designed to support a writer in revising a draft version of a document. In addition to showing which paragraphs and sentences are difficult to read and understand, we assist the reader in understanding why this is the case. This requires features that are expressive predictors of readability, and are also semantically understandable. In the first part of the paper, we, therefore, discuss a semiautomatic feature selection approach that is used to choose appropriate measures from a collection of 141 candidate readability features. In the second part, we present the visual analysis tool VisRA, which allows the user to analyze the feature values across the text and within single sentences. Users can choose between different visual representations accounting for differences in the size of the documents and the availability of information about the physical and logical layout of the documents. We put special emphasis on providing as much transparency as possible to ensure that the user can purposefully improve the readability of a sentence. Several case studies are presented that show the wide range of applicability of our tool. Furthermore, an in-depth evaluation assesses the quality of the measure and investigates how well users do in revising a text with the help of the tool.</dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:bibliographicCitation>IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ; 18 (2012), 5. - S. 662-674</dcterms:bibliographicCitation>
    <dcterms:available rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2013-03-28T14:18:32Z</dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:rights rdf:resource="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/"/>
    <dc:creator>Stoffel, Andreas</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>terms-of-use</dc:rights>
    <dspace:isPartOfCollection rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/36"/>
    <dc:contributor>Spretke, David</dc:contributor>
    <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
    <dcterms:issued>2012-05</dcterms:issued>
    <dc:contributor>Oelke, Daniela</dc:contributor>
    <bibo:uri rdf:resource="http://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/22594"/>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Universitätsbibliographie

Ja