Visualizing Natural Language Resources. In Re:inventing Information Science in the Networked Society

As we move through the era of Big Data, data visualization is increasingly
taking a leading role in the data presentation. Because of the disparity in the
amount of data and time we have to process it, it has become extremely important
to find the right way, i.e. the right picture that will convey a story our
data is holding. Although not falling within Big Data type of data, a dictionary
of nouns with a description of case paradigms still represents a large
amount of data that needs to be understood. In this paper, the distribution of
Croatian nouns and paradigms used for all singular cases existing in the NooJ
linguistic environment, as well as the relations among the case endings and
existing paradigms will be visually presented. Tableau software is used for
the first task and Cytoscape for the second. The structure of presented data
should help both those learning the language and those learning about the
language.