Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Near real time information mining in multilingual news
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
NLPLING '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground
Towards tracking semantic change by visual analytics
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
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We present a quantitative investigation of the cross-linguistic usage of some (relatively) newly minted derivational morphemes. In particular, we examine the lexical semantic content expressed by three suffixes originating in English: -gate, -geddon and -athon. Using data from newspapers, we look at the distribution and lexical semantic usage of these morphemes not only within English, but across several languages and also across time, with a time-depth of 20 years. The occurrence of these suffixes in available corpora are comparatively rare, however, by investigating huge amounts of data, we are able to arrive at interesting insights into the distribution, meaning and spread of the suffixes. Processing and understanding the huge amounts of data is accomplished via visualization methods that allow the presentation of an overall distributional picture, with further details and different types of perspectives available on demand.