https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/aearhart/Recent content in Aearhart on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USThu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/wordseer/Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/wordseer/<p>The <a href="http://wordseer.berkeley.edu/" title="Project page of WordSeer">WordSeer</a> tool, developed at the University of California, Berkley by <a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~aditi/" title="Professional page of Aditi Muralidharan">Aditi Muralidharan</a>  and <a href="http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/" title="Professional page of Marti A. Hearst">Marti Hearst</a> with research partner <a href="http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/74" title="Professional page of Bryan Wagner">Bryan Wagner</a>, is an exploratory analysis or “sensemaking” environment for literary texts. The tool is based on an understanding of literary analysis as a cyclical, rather than a linear, process, a notion that has been underemphasized in tool development where visualizations and datamining have generally been seen as exposing the text for scholarly treatment. WordSeer allows you to read a text, search for relationships between words and phrases, examine grammatical relationships, and examine produced heat map and tree visualizations.</p>