Exciting news!
The beta version of AVOBMAT will be soon available at the GWDG infrastructure. It features sample databases including the ELTeC novels (12 databases) and DraCor dramas (13 databases).
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What is AVOBMAT?
AVOBMAT (Analysis and Visualization of Bibliographic Metadata and Text) is a multilingual text mining tool designed for researchers, educators, and students working with large-scale textual and bibliographic data. It combines bibliographic data and textual analysis in a single, integrated and user-friendly web application, enabling users to address complex research questions.
With support for 16 languages, customizable workflows, and transformer-based machine learning technology, AVOBMAT facilitates precise analysis and enrichment of texts and metadata at scale. Users can also share their private databases, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange.
By streamlining text mining processes, AVOBMAT empowers researchers to focus on critical interpretation and data-driven discovery.
Upload, clean & configure
Access public databases or upload yours easily in various formats.
Clean your texts and configure the settings for all the analyses.
Analyze
Interactive analysis and visualizations include topic modelling, Part-of-speech tagging, Named entity recognition, disambiguation and linking.
Export & Share
Export and import configuration settings. Save statistical data and visualizations. Share or make your databases public.
Why AVOBMAT?
Multilingual Text Enrichment
AVOBMAT can preprocess, analyse, and (semantically) enrich a large number of texts and metadata in several languages without coding skills.
Interactive Text Analysis
The analytical and visualization tools provide interactive close and distant reading of texts and bibliographic data.
Validated, Transparent and Customizable Workflow
AVOBMAT has a transparent, peer-reviewed workflow with customizable parameter settings for all tools.
User-friendly NLP tools
AVOBMAT combines bibliographic data and natural language processing research methods (e.g. transformer models) in an integrated, interactive and user-friendly web application.
Critical Analysis and Visualizations
AVOBMAT fosters critical analysis, for instance, by identifying data gaps and missing metadata values.
Comparative and Diachronic Analysis
AVOBMAT offers multilingual comparative analysis with time-based components.
Transform your Textual Data into Discovery
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For whom?
Researchers, students, teachers of digital humanities, and libraries.
How can AVOBMAT help researchers, libraries and institutions that support or conduct digital humanities research and teaching?
Upload and explore
...your or your library’s large digital collections in innovative and interactive ways with customizable preprocessing, analysis & visualization tools;
Ask complex research questions
...by combining bibliographical data and text analyses and using NLP techniques
Gain new insights
...unveil overlooked connections, themes, trends & patterns
Critically analyze
...and interpret texts, (meta)data & visualizations
Identify biases and errors
(e.g. selection, metadata, classification) in your databases at scale to make more informed decisions about your research (questions)
Discover
...novel types of evidence and test old hypotheses
Teach
...digital humanities and highlight the challenges, limitations and strengths of computational text analysis and visual representation of digital texts and datasets
Collaborate
...with your colleagues, share your findings and make your databases public