the little grey box
Mar 13th, 2007 |
i saw this tool (notice the little grey box on the top left of the page) a while back but have not tried it until today. it is a text analysis for a web page created by geoffrey rockwell. it seems interesting, but i have yet to make sense of the visualizations. what do you think of it? and anjo, would love to hear your thoughts!
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Anjo said:
This looks like a collection of tools that implement the basic text analysis functions (the mention of regular expressions worries me a little bit).
A post-doc in our department is going to use (as from next Monday) tOKo for the analysis of chats (between students discussing physics problems) and she wants to find abstract things like: a hypothesis is proposed by A, how does B respond. It might be that what you are trying to get out of text is similar.
Anjo.
Geoffrey Rockwell said:
The visualization on the right is a weighted centroid – a simpler version of what TextArc does. Imagine the text wrapped around the outer circle in 10% chunks. The words are then attracted to the rim where they occur most frequently. A short description of this (and the other tools) can be found at, http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/TAPoRwareWeightedCentroid .