What’s up, Doc? Visualizing information in text documents for better readability and understanding

The summary and key ideas of a technical paper is textual in the form of keywords, abstracts, introductions and conclusions. More can certainly be done to improve the presentation of information in long papers, especially ones with long sentences. We present representations of a technical paper at three granularities the document level, the paragraph level, and the sentence level, to aid in the quicker understanding of the paper. We propose that this, combined with a semantic graph representation, can enhance its readability, and aid in skimming through various levels of information faster, especially when using the computer for reading. Keywords—Text visualization, Natural language processing, Semantic graph