Combined Word Tree Text Visualization for Context Exploration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computing systems lack an effective method to provide comprehensive visualization of search terms within large texts, offering limited context and complexity in exploring surrounding text information.
Innovation Solution
A combined word tree text visualization interface is developed, which displays a search term within a tree diagram, with prefix and suffix trees extending on either side, allowing users to select branches to view matching sequences of text, providing rich contextual information and flexible navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a combined tree diagram with prefix and suffix trees is used to visualize search term context, then the comprehensiveness of text context visualization is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The visualization interface is segmented into distinct components: a central search term node, a prefix tree extending to one side showing preceding tokens, and a suffix tree extending to the other side showing subsequent tokens. This segmentation allows comprehensive context visualization while organizing complexity into manageable, separate sections that can be independently constructed and navigated.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from linear text representation to a two-dimensional tree diagram structure. The prefix tree and suffix tree extend in opposite spatial directions from the central search term, creating a radial layout that preserves hierarchical relationships while displaying multi-dimensional context simultaneously. This dimensional transformation enables comprehensive context visualization without linear scrolling or pagination.
2Ease of operation
If user-selectable branches are implemented to drill down into specific sequences, then the ease of operation for exploring text sequences is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tree diagram implements dynamic interactivity where branches are user-selectable elements. When a user selects a branch, the system dynamically responds by highlighting the complete matching sequence (prefix string, search term, and suffix string) that originates through that branch. This dynamic feedback mechanism enables easy exploration of specific text sequences while maintaining a stable overall interface structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate visual feedback when users interact with the tree diagram. Selecting a branch triggers a highlighting response that displays the complete matching sequence, allowing users to verify their selection and understand the context being explored. This feedback loop simplifies operation by making the system's response to user actions predictable and informative.
Data Source
AI summary
An example method includes identifying instances of a search term in a source text, and identifying prefix strings and suffix strings comprising tokens preceding and subsequent to the search term in the source text. The method further includes displaying a visualization interface that includes the search term within a combined tree diagram that includes a prefix tree and a suffix tree extending to either side of the search term. The prefix tree displays the prefix strings and the suffix tree displays the suffix strings, and both have user-selectable branches. The method further includes providing, in response to a user input selecting a branch in the prefix tree or in the suffix tree, a visual indication of a prefix string and a suffix string in the visualization interface that form a matching sequence that originate together in the source text, for matching sequences that are connected through the selected branch.