Now that this is mentioned, and just in case not many people have seen this, there is another site that supports various types of visualizations: ManyEyes <http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/>. Last year I was taking an information visualization class and I was playing with various tools. I came across this<http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/quran-word-tree>visualization of some of the Quran text. The site is easy to use, but unfortunately it neither supports Arabic in real sense nor scales up that well (for example, it was kind of difficult to get a bigger chunk of the data used in this<http://mumageed.blogspot.com/2010/04/inpho-interactive-visualization.html>visualization plugged there.
Best, --muhammad abdul-mageed, Ph.D. student, Computational Linguistics and School of Library & Info. Science, Indiana Univ., Bloomington On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Eric Atwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Wordle is a website for creating "word clouds", pictures to visualise > a text by summarising the key words in a visual image. See: > http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2390754/Quran1 > http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2390769/Quran2 > http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2390773/Quran3 > for example Wordle visualisations of the word-by-word Arabic-English > translation of the Quran from http://corpus.quran.com/ > > Are such visualisations of use to anyone? > > Eric Atwell, > Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing, > Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England > TEL: 0113-3435430 FAX: 0113-3435468 WWW/email: google Eric Atwell >
