Kai Lawonn — accepted AI-conference papers

2024

Plots Made Quickly: An Efficient Approach for Generating Visualizations from Natural Language Queries

COLING 2024main

Generating visualizations from natural language queries is a useful extension to visualization libraries such as Vega-Lite. The goal of the NL2VIS task is to generate a valid Vega-Lite specification from a data frame and a natural language query as input, which can then be rendered as a visualizatio…

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2022

The Why and The How: A Survey on Natural Language Interaction in Visualization

Henrik Voigt, Ozge Alacam, Monique Meuschke, Kai Lawonn, Sina Zarrieß

NAACL 2022long

Natural language as a modality of interaction is becoming increasingly popular in the field of visualization. In addition to the popular query interfaces, other language-based interactions such as annotations, recommendations, explanations, or documentation experience growing interest. In this surve…

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