Accessible visualization via natural language descriptions: A four-level model of semantic content

A Lundgard, A Satyanarayan - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Natural language descriptions sometimes accompany visualizations to better communicate
and contextualize their insights, and to improve their accessibility for readers with …

Chart-to-text: A large-scale benchmark for chart summarization

S Kantharaj, RTK Leong, X Lin, A Masry… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Charts are commonly used for exploring data and communicating insights. Generating
natural language summaries from charts can be very helpful for people in inferring key …

Vistext: A benchmark for semantically rich chart captioning

BJ Tang, A Boggust, A Satyanarayan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05356, 2023 - arxiv.org
Captions that describe or explain charts help improve recall and comprehension of the
depicted data and provide a more accessible medium for people with visual disabilities …

Communicating visualizations without visuals: Investigation of visualization alternative text for people with visual impairments

C Jung, S Mehta, A Kulkarni, Y Zhao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alternative text is critical in communicating graphics to people who are blind or have low
vision. Especially for graphics that contain rich information, such as visualizations, poorly …

Chart-to-text: Generating natural language descriptions for charts by adapting the transformer model

J Obeid, E Hoque - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09142, 2020 - arxiv.org
Information visualizations such as bar charts and line charts are very popular for exploring
data and communicating insights. Interpreting and making sense of such visualizations can …

Towards assisting the visually impaired: a review on techniques for decoding the visual data from chart images

KC Shahira, A Lijiya - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The textual data of a document is supplemented by the graphical information in it. To make
communication easier, they contain tables, charts and images. However, it excludes a …

The state of the art in creating visualization corpora for automated chart analysis

C Chen, Z Liu - Computer Graphics Forum, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a state‐of‐the‐art report on visualization corpora in automated chart analysis
research. We survey 56 papers that created or used a visualization corpus as the input of …

SciCap: Generating captions for scientific figures

TY Hsu, CL Giles, THK Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11624, 2021 - arxiv.org
Researchers use figures to communicate rich, complex information in scientific papers. The
captions of these figures are critical to conveying effective messages. However, low-quality …

Answering questions about charts and generating visual explanations

DH Kim, E Hoque, M Agrawala - … of the 2020 CHI conference on human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
People often use charts to analyze data, answer questions and explain their answers to
others. In a formative study, we find that such human-generated questions and explanations …

Opencqa: Open-ended question answering with charts

S Kantharaj, XL Do, RTK Leong, JQ Tan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Charts are very popular to analyze data and convey important insights. People often analyze
visualizations to answer open-ended questions that require explanatory answers …