DocuBurst: Radial Space-Filling Visualization of Document Content

Abstract

We present the first visualization of doc- ument content which takes advantage of the human-created structure in lexical databases. We use an accepted design paradigm to generate visualizations which improve the usability and utility ofWord- Net as the backbone for document con- tent visualization. A radial, space-filling layout of hyponymy (IS-A relation) is presented with interactive techniques of zoom, filter, and details-on-demand for the task of document visualization. The techniques can be generalized to multiple documents.