Develop a word-wave application using Eclipse and other open source software

This visualization is a http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17547.html "> powerful to a tongue-tied method that quickly determines what a particular text refers to. As a by-product, visualization also provides a method for real-time text analysis. This article describes how to develop text visualization and analysis software using open source tools and libraries. The application of this article compares and analyzes two texts with the same or similar content, and enables users to gain new insights about the text and its content.

The application you build is based on the vocabulary cloud visualization. The vocabulary cloud visualization can parse specific text and sort its words by frequency. Rank the word, and then set the font size according to its rank. The highest-ranked words are displayed in the largest font. A visual word layout can change, but it usually looks like a cloud, as shown here:

To generate the word cloud shown, I used IBM Many eyes to analyze the CEO and CEO speech in IBM's 2011 report.

In this article, the application generates a lexical wave, the text visualization of a shape like a wave. Word waves put the highest-ranked words in the upper-left corner. Shows an example of visualization with the same article:

The visual text shows the higher-ranked vocabulary. Based on the visualization of this paper, it is assumed that high rank words have a hierarchy of importance. Comparisons are required when two text visualizations are displayed simultaneously. Comparisons are particularly important if the contents of two texts are identical or similar. For example, comparisons of the text that describe the policies of two companies in the same industry show similarities and differences in the focus of the two companies.

Is the final comparison sketch of two texts. The first text visualization is at the top and the second is at the bottom. The higher-ranked word is on the left.

This article and its code will show you how to:

This article does not delve into the details of development, so familiarity with Java™ development and the Eclipse programming model is helpful to readers. All of these application source code (the application's Eclipse project and the Web site where updates are ready to be deployed) can be downloaded.

I'll start with a brief introduction to the development environment component.