@conference {887,
	title = {Automated Alignment of Medieval Text Versions based on Word Embeddings},
	booktitle = {LEVIA{\textquoteright}19: Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications 2019},
	year = {2019},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {Medieval textuality is characterized by instability in text structure and length that varies according to the text tradition. This instability in the versions, otherwise known as {\textquotedblleft}mouvance{\textquotedblright}, is characterized by dialectal difference, traces of orality, the modification of wording and even the rewriting and rearrangement of large parts of the text. To help humanities scholars in the exploratory analysis of such complex text collections, the visual analytic system iteal was initially proposed. The system aligns similar phrases on a line-level on the basis of string similarity and word n-grams. We propose an extension of this system that replaces the parameter-based approach with an automatic one using word embeddings thereby adding a semantic component. The benefit of the new visualization system is shown through a comparison of different versions of medieval French texts. Additionally, a domain-expert compared the parameter-based approach with the approach based on word embeddings to outline the similarities and differences in the alignments.},
	keywords = {Digital Humanities, Sentence Alignment, Visualization, Word Embedding},
	doi = {10.31219/osf.io/tah3y},
	url = {https://levia19.vizcovery.de/papers/LEVIA19_paper_6.pdf},
	author = {Meinecke, Christofer and Wrisley, David Joseph and J{\"a}nicke, Stefan}
}
@conference {888,
	title = {Visual Analysis of Engineers{\textquoteright} Biographies and Engineering Branches},
	booktitle = {LEVIA{\textquoteright}18 : Leipzig Symposium on Visualization in Applications},
	year = {2018},
	address = {Leipzig},
	abstract = {The Prosopographic Database of German Engineers 1825{\textendash}1970 contains a multitude of biographical information. Given a set of research interests by collaborating historians, this paper discusses the steps undertaken (1) to extract engineering subjects from unstructured text entries in the database accompanied with geospatial and temporal information,(2) to adapt existing visual representations to facilitate exploratory analyses, and (3) to design a visual interface to support the interactive composition of engineering branches from engineering subjects to enable the comparative analysis of geospatial-temporal developments in engineering. Usage scenarios outline the benefit of the proposed visualizations for modern prosopography research.},
	keywords = {Digital Humanities, prosopographic visualization, visual exploration},
	url = {https://levia18.vizcovery.de/paper/levia18-meinecke.pdf},
	author = {Meinecke, Christofer and J{\"a}nicke, Stefan}
}
