Visualizing texts: a tool for generating thematic-progression diagrams

A Tool for Generating Interactive Euler Diagrams

We describe a tool for generating Euler diagrams from a set of region connection calculus formulas. The generation is based on a variant of local search capturing default reasoning for improving aesthetic appearance of Euler diagrams. We also describe an optimization for diagrams to be interactive: the user can modify the diagram with the mouse while formulas are still satisfied. We also discus...

Generating Textual Diagrams and Diagrammatic Texts

There are obvious ways in which text and diagrams within a document should be coordinated: for instance, the placement of a diagram might influence the wording of the text. However, there is a more subtle interaction between text and diagrams, which has emerged from work on generating technical documents that make extensive use of layout. Constituents that would normally be classified as textua...

Meteocogent: a Knowledge-based Tool for Generating Weather Forecast Texts

The production of textual forecasts by professional meteorologists is a time-constrained activity requiring the interaction of knowledge about meteorology, knowledge about language and knowledge about the conventions used to communicate the right amount of weather information to meet the needs of diverse user communities. In situations where forecasts are written manually, the time spent compos...

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Systems diagrams for visualizing macroeconomics

For an anthropologist like myself the work of H.T. Odum has great significance. For 40 years his research has explored the workings of open systems of all sorts found in nature, including the biosphere’s systems of humanity (Odum, 1971, 1983, 1996; Odum and Odum, 1976, 2001; Odum et al., 1998). There is perhaps no more interesting systemic relationship than that between people and nature, and b...