A common task in literary analysis is to study characters in a novel or collection. Automatic entity extraction, text analysis and effective user interfaces facilitate character analysis. Using our interface, called POSvis, the scholar uses word clouds and selforganizing graphs to review vocabulary, to filter by part of speech, and to explore the network of characters located near characters un...

We present five X-ray quasars behind the Small Magellanic Cloud, increasing the number of known quasars behind the SMC by ∼40%. They were identified via follow-up spectroscopy of serendipitous sources from the Chandra X-ray Observatory matched with objects from the OGLE database. All quasars lie behind dense parts of the SMC, and could be very useful for proper motion studies. We analyze X-ray ...

Text visualisations provide visual representations of documents or small corpora with the primary aim of supporting language analysis. We are interested in developing a more playful approach to language that can be characterised by the notion of wandering as an open-ended movement. To support such a casual form of engagement with text, we designed the WordWanderer system: a visualisation techni...

The topic of this paper is the sensitivity of the brightness of noctilucent clouds (NLC) on the ambient water vapour mixing ratio f(H2O). Firstly, we use state-of-the-art models of NLC layer formation to predict NLC brightness changes in response to changes in the 80 km mixing ratio f(H2O) for the two cases of ground-based 532 nm lidar observations at 69 N and for hemispheric satellite SBUV obs...

From word clouds to cartographic labels to word trees, many visualizations encode data within the sizes of fonts. While font size can be an intuitive dimension for the viewer, it may also bias the perception of the underlying values. Viewers might conflate the size of a word’s font with a word’s width, with the number of letters it contains, or with the larger or smaller heights of particular c...

The identification of repeat structure in eukaryotic genomes can be time-consuming and difficult because of the large amount of information ( approximately 3 x 10(9) bp) that needs to be processed and compared. We introduce a new approach based on exact word counts to evaluate, de novo, the repeat structure present within large eukaryotic genomes. This approach avoids sequence alignment and sim...

We will demonstrate a novel graphical interface for correcting search errors in the output of a speech recognizer. This interface allows the user to visualize the word lattice by “pulling apart” regions of the hypothesis to reveal a cloud of words simlar to the “tag clouds” popular in many Web applications. This interface is potentially useful for dictation on portable touchscreen devices such ...

it is very important to determine the stable nitrogen isotope ratio for the nitrogenous substances in aerosols and the geochemistry behavior of stable nitrate ion isotopes in aerosols in order to elucidate the chemical and physical functions of clouds. hence, aerosol field sampling was conducted in the skies offshore from malibu beach and santa barbara, california, u.s.a. on 16 and 18 july 2009...

Kombucha is a yeast and bacterially fermented tea that often described as having an acetic, fruity sour flavour. There particular lack of sensory research around the use with additional ingredients such those from pepper family, or hops. The goal this project was to obtain profile beverages range different ingredients, particularly novel made only Kawakawa (Piper excelsum) leaves. Other samples...