Linguistic annotation is an important means of adding information
to corpora of spoken or written language. While some less complex annota-
tion tasks can be performed automatically, a great number of annotation tasks
require manual annotation, which is typically very time-consuming and
tedious. As a consequence, tools for manual annotation tasks should provide
a user-friendly interface that makes the annotation process as convenient and
efficient as possible; in other words, usability should play an important role in
the design of such tools. This article contributes to the field of “visual linguis-
tics” by investigating the role of visualization in linguistic annotation tools with
regard to good and bad usability practices. While there are several studies that
are dedicated to visualizing linguistic results, visualization in the context of
linguistic annotation has so far been largely neglected. Accordingly, a heuristic
walkthrough evaluation study with 11 annotation tools was conducted to find
out about typical usability problems. It showed that many of the usability issues
identified during the evaluation are related to aspects of interaction design.
However, there are also a large number of usability issues that are directly con-
nected to aspects of visualization and visual design. These aspects of good and
bad visualization are discussed by means of existing usability heuristics, which
can be used to illustrate and explain how and why visualization influences the
usability of linguistic annotation tools.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92574 |
| Date | 11 July 2024 |
| Creators | Burghardt, Manuel |
| Publisher | Heidelberg University Publishing |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:bookPart, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 978-3-946054-75-7 |
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