Chris Kam
Shena Hoffmann
Reference Information
Title - Finding Your Way in a Multi-dimensional Semantic Space with Luminoso
Authors - Robert Speer, Catherine Havasi, Nichole Treadway, Henry Lieberman
IUI 2010
Summary
The authors in this paper discuss a tool that will help researchers to be able look at semantic space and visualize it better. It will help them see different semantic data patterns in user inputted documents. These documents will be be using a canonical setup to test if the inputs are semantic. Natural language is used to analyze users inputs and this is used to look at the data, cluster them, and look at different patterns, as well as draw some conclusions. The graph is setup like a scatter plot mostly, in which each point is a document in space. The larger the point, the more times something particular appears in the user inputted documents.
Discussion
I really liked reading about Luminoso, it seemed applicable. I could see how people may become lost in large amounts of data. A researcher would be able to see how many times a particular part of his data has been referenced and possible see annomilies that would not be recognized by the human eye.
Wow. That's illuminating.
ReplyDeleteIt seemed pretty interesting how they were able to bring all of the data together and represent it like they did. It would be nice to experiment with this tool to see exactly how useful it is in its application.
ReplyDeleteI was a little confused on actually how to read the data from the pictures because it didn't really describe how to use it. I really like the idea though for sifting through mass amounts of data.
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