Towards natural language interfaces for data visualization: A survey

L Shen, E Shen, Y Luo, X Yang, X Hu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Utilizing Visualization-oriented Natural Language Interfaces (V-NLI) as a complementary
input modality to direct manipulation for visual analytics can provide an engaging user …

Ai4vis: Survey on artificial intelligence approaches for data visualization

A Wu, Y Wang, X Shu, D Moritz, W Cui… - … on Visualization and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visualizations themselves have become a data format. Akin to other data formats such as
text and images, visualizations are increasingly created, stored, shared, and (re-) used 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 …

Calliope: Automatic visual data story generation from a spreadsheet

D Shi, X Xu, F Sun, Y Shi, N Cao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual data stories shown in the form of narrative visualizations such as a poster or a data
video, are frequently used in data-oriented storytelling to facilitate the understanding and …

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 …

Accessible visualization: Design space, opportunities, and challenges

NW Kim, SC Joyner, A Riegelhuth… - Computer graphics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Visualizations are now widely used across disciplines to understand and communicate data.
The benefit of visualizations lies in leveraging our natural visual perception. However, the …

Augmenting visualizations with interactive data facts to facilitate interpretation and communication

A Srinivasan, SM Drucker, A Endert… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, an increasing number of visualization systems have begun to incorporate natural
language generation (NLG) capabilities into their interfaces. NLG-based visualization …

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 …

Text-to-viz: Automatic generation of infographics from proportion-related natural language statements

W Cui, X Zhang, Y Wang, H Huang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combining data content with visual embellishments, infographics can effectively deliver
messages in an engaging and memorable manner. Various authoring tools have been …