The TTLab (Text Technology Lab), headed by Prof. Alexander Mehler, is part of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics (Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik) at the Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. It investigates formal, algorithmic models to deepen our understanding of information processing in the humanities. We examine diachronic, time-dependent as well as synchronic aspects of processing linguistic and non-linguistic, multimodal signs. The Lab works across several disciplines to bridge between computer science on the one hand and corpus-based research in the humanities on the other. To this end, we develop information models and algorithms for the analysis of texts, images, and other objects relevant to research in the humanities.
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Video of the Public Transport Simulator
Video of the digital reconstruction of the Philanthropin in Frankfurt
Digital reconstruction of the Philanthropin in Frankfurt [1]
Video of StolperwegeVR Demonstration [2]
Demonstration of [2]
Video of VAnnotatoR Demonstration: A framework for generating multimodal hypertexts and for linguistic and multimodal annotation [3]
Demonstration of [4]
Video of resources2city Explorer Demonstration: A System for Generating Interactive Walkable Virtual Cities out of File Systems [5]
Demonstration of [6]
Split screen video of resources2city Explorer Demonstration: A System for Generating Interactive Walkable Virtual Cities out of File Systems [7]
Demonstration of [6]
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[Bibtex]
@InProceedings{Spiekerman:Abrami:Mehler:2018,
Author = {Christian Spiekermann and Giuseppe Abrami and
Alexander Mehler},
Title = {{VAnnotatoR}: a Gesture-driven Annotation Framework
for Linguistic and Multimodal Annotation},
BookTitle = {Proceedings of the Annotation, Recognition and
Evaluation of Actions (AREA 2018) Workshop},
Series = {AREA},
location = {Miyazaki, Japan},
pdf = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/VAnnotatoR.pdf},
year = 2018
}
[Bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kett:et:al:2018,
Author = {Attila Kett and Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler and Christian Spiekermann},
Title = {{Resources2City Explorer}: A System for Generating Interactive Walkable Virtual Cities out of File Systems},
BookTitle = {Proceedings of the 31st ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium},
poster = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/UIST2018Final.pdf},
location = {Berlin, Germany},
abstract = {We present Resources2City Explorer (R2CE), a tool for representing file systems as interactive, walkable virtual cities. R2CE visualizes file systems based on concepts of spatial, 3D information processing. For this purpose, it extends the range of functions of conventional file browsers considerably. Visual elements in a city generated by R2CE represent (relations of) objects of the underlying file system. The paper describes the functional spectrum of R2CE and illustrates it by visualizing a sample of 940 files.},
year = 2018
}