A Quantitative Analysis of Romanian Writers’ Demography Based on the General Dictionary of Romanian Literature

Emerging Patterns in Romanian Literature and Interactive Visualizations based on the General Dictionary of Romanian Literature

“…The data used in our visual representations was automatically extracted from DGLR and from a set of files provided separately by the Romanian Academy; these files included more detailed, granular chronological information on the life of canonical writers. A first experiment by Neagu et al [17] was conducted on a subset of the available corpus to observe demographics of Romanian writers based on DGLR. The current work follows the same direction, processing a larger amount of data, extracting additional types of entities, and introducing novel visualizations.…”

“…The second type of visualizations consists of two maps: the writers' birth places and the travels of canonicals writers throughout the world. These types of visualizations were introduced in the initial study performed by Neagu et al [17], but the travel map of canonical writers was enhanced, as follows (see Figure 2). The displayed paths can now be filtered by selecting and deselecting entities from the leftside legend.…”

“…Each year in the chart has three corresponding values: the death age the youngest and oldest authors, together with the average value between these two. Second, a miscellaneous graph considers a dumbbell plot for the publications of canonical writers [17], listing the first and last publication years. Third, we introduce an experimental timeline view, an alternative to the canonical writers' travels, available currently only for "George Co buc" (see Figure 6), a representative writer for Romanian literature; other authors will be added iteratively to this visualization.…”