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language translation, parsing, graphics, visualization, writing, education
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COMPUTING RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK [July 22 - 29, 2011]
Write it, See it: Visualizing History
Helping students transform mundane text into visuals can improve attention and speed learning. A team of computer scientists and education researchers worked to generate a system that produces 3D scenes from written language. The system, called WordsEye, analyzes text, including handling complex context based description, such as relational words, and then refers to a 3D object library to output a visual.
An example of WordsEye
In the field, 6th grade students that used WordsEye produced better final essays (as scored by independent, trained raters) and showed greater improvement. Future improvements might make WordsEye applicable in other areas such as robotics, communications devices, or video games.
Researchers:
Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University)
Institution(s) (that have supported the research):
Columbia University
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