The Why and The How: A Survey on Natural Language Interaction in Visualization
Henrik Voigt, Ozge Alacam, Monique Meuschke, Kai Lawonn, Sina Zarrieß
Abstract
Natural language as a modality of interaction is becoming increasingly popular in the field of visualization. In addition to the popular query interfaces, other language-based interactions such as annotations, recommendations, explanations, or documentation experience growing interest. In this survey, we provide an overview of natural language-based interaction in the research area of visualization. We discuss a renowned taxonomy of visualization tasks and classify 119 related works to illustrate the state-of-the-art of how current natural language interfaces support their performance. We examine applied NLP methods and discuss human-machine dialogue structures with a focus on initiative, duration, and communicative functions in recent visualization-oriented dialogue interfaces. Based on this overview, we point out interesting areas for the future application of NLP methods in the field of visualization.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.naacl-main.27
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 348–374
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.27
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.27
- Cite (ACL):
- Henrik Voigt, Ozge Alacam, Monique Meuschke, Kai Lawonn, and Sina Zarrieß. 2022. The Why and The How: A Survey on Natural Language Interaction in Visualization. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 348–374, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- The Why and The How: A Survey on Natural Language Interaction in Visualization (Voigt et al., NAACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/2022.naacl-main.27.pdf