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Give Text A Chance: Advocating for Equal Consideration for Language and Visualization
Chase Stokes, Marti A. Hearst
Visualization research tends to de-emphasize consideration of the textual context in which its images are placed. We argue that visualization research should consider textual repre…
The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head +52
Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However, research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature…
Why More Text is (Often) Better: Themes from Reader Preferences for Integration of Charts and Text
Chase Stokes, Marti Hearst
Given a choice between charts with minimal text and those with copious textual annotations, participants in a study (Stokes et al.) tended to prefer the charts with more text. This…
Striking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts
Chase Stokes, Vidya Setlur, Bridget Cogley +2
While visualizations are an effective way to represent insights about information, they rarely stand alone. When designing a visualization, text is often added to provide additiona…
Scim: Intelligent Skimming Support for Scientific Papers
Raymond Fok, Hita Kambhamettu, Luca Soldaini +5
Researchers need to keep up with immense literatures, though it is time-consuming and difficult to do so. In this paper, we investigate the role that intelligent interfaces can pla…
Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing
Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg +3
When seeking information not covered in patient-friendly documents, like medical pamphlets, healthcare consumers may turn to the research literature. Reading medical papers, howeve…
NewsPod: Automatic and Interactive News Podcasts
Philippe Laban, Elicia Ye, Srujay Korlakunta +2
News podcasts are a popular medium to stay informed and dive deep into news topics. Today, most podcasts are handcrafted by professionals. In this work, we advance the state-of-the…
Augmenting Scientific Papers with Just-in-Time, Position-Sensitive Definitions of Terms and Symbols
Andrew Head, Kyle Lo, Dongyeop Kang +4
Despite the central importance of research papers to scientific progress, they can be difficult to read. Comprehension is often stymied when the information needed to understand a…