Publicerad: 2016-07-08
ISBN: 978-91-7685-733-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (tryckt), 1650-3740 (online)
ParaViz is a modular corpus query and analysis tool for use with a word aligned, linguistically annotated multilingual corpus of parallel translated texts. Representing an addition to classic query-based corpus tools, ParaViz makes it easy to assess differences in the meanings of cognate or otherwise comparable items in different languages based on their distribution in parallel texts. Translations are thus essentially used as semantic annotations, allowing for a bottom-up analysis of semantics in a network of texts in many languages. The tool takes as input a user-supplied operationalization of the variables under comparison. It then provides the user with two perspectives on the distribution of these variables in the parallel corpus: on the one hand, a close-up perspective of word-aligned corpus examples, color-coded in respect to the user-provided parameters; on the other hand, a bird’s view perspective with visualizations that provide overviews of the aggregated differences in use. Data sets with the categorized data is made available for download so it can be further analyzed. Initially developed as an offline version with a specific research topic in mind, the tool has been adapted as an online tool and will be available for use with the ParaSol corpus (Waldenfels 2011). We feel the publication of such tools in a format that makes it accessible for the research community at large is an important part of addressing the issues of research result replication and sustainability of research efforts in digital humanities in general.
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