Abstract Kaleidographic is a dynamic and interactive data visualization tool that allows users to observe and explore relations between any number of variables. The tool is useful for displaying the complex ways in which textual elements interact across a range of texts. Thus far, the tool has been used to display the results of corpus studies as well as corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analyses that investigate text-image relations. To facilitate broader applications of the tool, it is now publicly available online for use without charge. This paper explains the background and motivation for Kaleidographic and presents two case studies demonstrating its utility. Limitations of the tool are discussed and its potential uses in corpus linguistics research and beyond are introduced.

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万花筒

摘要 Kaleidographic 是一种动态的交互式数据可视化工具，允许用户观察和探索任意数量的变量之间的关系。该工具可用于显示文本元素在一系列文本中交互的复杂方式。到目前为止，该工具已被用于显示语料库研究的结果以及研究文本-图像关系的语料库辅助多模态话语分析。为了促进该工具的更广泛应用，它现在可以在网上公开免费使用。本文解释了 Kaleidographic 的背景和动机，并提供了两个案例研究来证明其实用性。讨论了该工具的局限性，并介绍了它在语料库语言学研究及其他方面的潜在用途。