Abstract
While “traditional” language resources, ranging from multi-layered treebanks to linked ontologies, encode complex linguistic information, data analysis in the online world faces yet another set of challenges: Data is generated around the clock, comes in huge quantities and reflects events in the digital world in real-time. With this type of data at hand, we need to think about novel ways of visually encoding properties of language, not only to respond to certain trends such as hate speeches and cyber-bullying, but also to investigate the development of language in a more general manner. Visualization offers new methods for processing and analysing online data, and as such, the workshop fits squarely into this year’s hot topic ‘LRs in the Online World’. VisLR III also promotes LREC’s general objectives of bringing together related disciplines. We particularly reach out to disciplines starting to use language resources and visualization to develop their own research agendas, such as the social sciences