@InProceedings{elkhatib-EtAl:2016:COLINGDEMO,
  author    = {El Khatib, Randa  and  El Zini, Julia  and  Wrisley, David  and  Jaber, Mohamad  and  Elbassuoni, Shady},
  title     = {TopoText: Interactive Digital Mapping of Literary Text},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {189--193},
  abstract  = {We demonstrate TopoText, an interactive tool for digital mapping of literary
	text. TopoText takes as input a literary piece of text such as a novel or a
	biography article and automatically extracts all place names in the text. The
	identified places are then geoparsed and displayed on an interactive map.
	TopoText calculates the number of times a place was mentioned in the text,
	which is then reflected on the map allowing the end-user to grasp the
	importance of the different places within the text. It also displays the most
	frequent words mentioned within a specified proximity of a place name in
	context or across the entire text. This can also be faceted according to part
	of speech tags. Finally, TopoText keeps the human in the loop by allowing the
	end-user to disambiguate places and to provide specific place annotations. All
	extracted information such as geolocations, place frequencies, as well as all
	user-provided annotations can be automatically exported as a CSV file that can
	be imported later by the same user or other users.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/C16-2040}
}