Visualizing Contextual Information in Aggregated Web Content Repositories

Abstract

Abstract-Understanding stakeholder perceptions and the impact of campaigns are key insights for communication experts and policy makers. A structured analysis of Web content can help answer these questions, particularly if this analysis involves the ability to extract, disambiguate and visualize contextual information. After summarizing methods used for acquiring and annotating Web content repositories, we present visualization techniques to explore the lexical, geospatial and relational context of entities in these repositories. The examples stem from the Media Watch on Climate Change, a publicly available Web portal that aggregates environmental resources from various online sources.

Analyzing the public discourse on works of fiction – Detection and visualization of emotion in online coverage about HBO’s Game of Thrones

“…The word tree module ( Fischl and Scharl, 2014 , Scharl et al, 2014 ) presents the concordance list in a more intuitive manner, showing the different contexts in which fictional characters or topics are being discussed. Its graph-based display facilitates the rapid exploration of search results and conveys a better understanding of how language is being used surrounding a topic of interest.…”