Automatic Infogram Generation for Online Journalism

摘要

Infographics is a tool for data visualization. It makes data easy to understand and interpret. An infographic is defined as a visual representation for data like a chart or a diagram. Infographics can help in many fields including education. This is due to the fact that information can be easily memorized and understood if was given in a visual form. Infographics are found everywhere and used in many different fields. Facebook timeline is considered as an infographic. On another hand, online journalism is increasingly gaining popularity. It is also considered as a source of big data that is rapidly expanding. Online newspapers and magazines provide a large population with daily important information. The aim of the work is to use data visualization, infographics and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques in online journalism. The aim of the work is to automatically visualize the information in an article in the form of infographics.