a digital toolkit for analysing and visualizing bibliographic metadata and texts
What is AVOBMAT?
The development of AVOBMAT began in 2017 with the objective of creating a tool that is capable of performing critical and interactive analysis of bibliographic metadata AND texts with data-driven and NLP (Natural Language Processing) methods supported by AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques in a number of languages.
AVOBMAT is in the final stages of development and will be available in December of 2020.
The Features of AVOBMAT
Text and data mining large library & research databases
Content analyis
Interactive metadata analysis & visualizations
8 Preprocessing options
Topic modeling, correlations, visualizations
Network analysis
61 available languages
N-gram viewer
Over 100 metadata fields
Individual configuration of all analytical tools
TagSpheres (context of a word)
Metadata enrichment & cleaning
Live Google Drive import
Significant text analysis (comparing corpora)
Automatic language detection
Fast advanced, fuzzy, proximity and commandline searches
Keyword in Context / Concordance
Gender analysis of authors
Reproducibility (import/export)
8 Lexical diversity metrics
What can AVOBMAT offer?
How can it help your research?
- Explore your large digital collections in innovative & interactive ways with customizable preprocessing, analysis & visualization tools
- Discover new insights, unveil overlooked connections, themes, trends & patterns
- Critically analyze & interpret texts, (meta)data & visualizations
- Identify biases and errors in your databases at scale (e.g. selection, metadata, classification) to make more informed decisions about your research (questions)
- Discover novel type of evidence & test old hypotheses
The AVOBMAT Team
Gábor Berend
Senior Assistant Professor
Research Group on Artificial Intelligence
University of Szeged & Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Róbert Péter
Project Coordinator
Associate professor
Department of English Studies
University of Szeged
Close & distant reading
Close reading
Focus on the interpretation of few, individual documents.
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Distant reading
Exploring the great unread: unveiling and analysing repeated patterns, hidden connections, trends, themes and parallels in large quantity of texts.
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AVOBMAT
The combination of close and distant reading.
Big data in the humanities
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