Visualizing Natural Language Resources

Abstract

As we move through the era of Big Data, data visualization is increasingly taking a leading role in the data presentation. Because of the disparity in the amount of data and time we have to process it, it has become extremely important to find the right way, i.e. the right picture that will convey a story our data is holding. Although not falling within Big Data type of data, a dictionary of nouns with a description of case paradigms still represents a large amount of data that needs to be understood. In this paper, the distribution of Croatian nouns and paradigms used for all singular cases existing in the NooJ linguistic environment, as well as the relations among the case endings and existing paradigms will be visually presented. Tableau software is used for the first task and Cytoscape for the second. The structure of presented data should help both those learning the language and those learning about the language.