2012/05/14 by Seung‐Yeon Kim, Joshua V. Dillon, Kim, Seungyeon +3
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Multimedia Communication and Technology #Software Engineering Research #Web Data Mining and Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.3205
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Unlike static documents, version-controlled documents are edited by one or more authors over a certain period of time. Examples include large scale computer code, papers authored by a team of scientists, and online discussion boards. Such collaborative revision process makes traditional document modeling and visualization techniques inappropriate. In this paper we propose a new visualization technique for version-controlled documents that reveals interesting authoring patterns in papers, computer code and Wikipedia articles. The revealed authoring patterns are useful for the readers, participants in the authoring process, and supervisors.