Articulate 2 : Toward a Conversational Interface for Visual Data Exploration

’InfoVis novices’ have been found to struggle with visual data exploration. A ’conversational interface’ which would take natural language inputs to visualization generation and modification, while maintaining a history of the requests, visualizations and findings of the user, has the potential to ameliorate many of these challenges. We present Articulate2, initial work toward a conversational interface to visual data exploration.

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