@article{25,
  author = {Adam Bradley and Travis Kirton and Mark Hancock and Sheelagh Carpendale},
  title = {Language DNA: Visualizing a language decomposition},
  abstract = {<p>In the Digital Humanities, there is a fast-growing body of research that uses data visualization to explore the structures of language. While new techniques are proliferating they still fall short of offering whole language experimentation. We provide a mathematical technique that maps words and symbols to ordered unique numerical values, showing that this mapping is one-to-one and onto. We demonstrate this technique through linear, planar, and volumetric visualizations of data sets as large as the Oxford English Dictionary and as small as a single poem. The visualizations of this space have been designed to engage the viewer in the analogic practice of comparison already in use by literary critics but on a scale inaccessible by other means. We studied our visualization with expert participants from many fields including English studies, Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computer Graphics. We present our findings from this study and discuss both the criticisms and validations of our approach.</p>
},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Digital Humanities Quarterly},
  volume = {10},
  number = {4},
  publisher = {ADHO},
  issn = {1938-4122},
  url = {http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/4/000259/000259.html},
}