Geographical Visualization of Search Results in Historical Corpora

摘要

We present ANNISVis, a webapp for comparative visualization of geographical distribution of linguistic data, as well as a sample deployment for a corpus of Middle High German texts. Unlike existing geographical visualization solutions, which work with pre-existing data sets, or are bound to specific corpora, ANNISVis allows the user to formulate multiple ad-hoc queries and visualizes them on a map, and it can be configured for any corpus that can be imported into AN-NIS. This enables explorative queries of the quantitative aspects of a corpus with geographical features. The tool will be made available to download in open source.