Skim-reading thousands of documents in one minute: Data indexing and visualization for multifarious search

In this paper we present an interface based on a recent generative model, the counting grid, here re-introduced in its basic version and largely revised to allow it to deal with large corpora. We show that it is possible to visualize thousands of high order word cooccurrence patterns by only viewing for a few minutes a new embedding we propose for text visualization, browsing and search purposes. We performed preliminary experiments with user tasks such as word spotting, rapid content search and collateral information acquisition.

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