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Paper Title:
Topigraphy: Visualization for Large-scale Tag Clouds

Authors:

• Ko Fujimura(NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories)
• Shigeru Fujimura(NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories)
• Tatsushi Matsubayashi(NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
• Takeshi Yamada(NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
• Hidenori Okuda(NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories)

Abstract:
This paper proposes a new method for displaying large-scale tag clouds. We use a topographical image that helps users to grasp the relationship among tags intuitively as a background to the tag clouds. We apply this interface to a blog navigation system and show that the proposed method enables users to find the desired tags easily even if the tag clouds are very large, 5,000 and above tags. Our approach is also effective for understanding the overall structure of a large amount of tagged documents.

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