Demo Data from EDBT 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Andrew P. Mar
dblp:392/5234
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper |
Visualization and visual analytics · 100% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Accessibility and assistive technology · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Visualization and visual analytics › biological data visualization
genomic data visualization |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | AltGosling: automatic generation of text descriptions for accessible genomics data visualization · Bioinform. 2024 |
Accessibility and assistive technology › image accessibility
accessible data visualization |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | AltGosling: automatic generation of text descriptions for accessible genomics data visualization · Bioinform. 2024 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › genomics
genome visualization |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | AltGosling: automatic generation of text descriptions for accessible genomics data visualization · Bioinform. 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
logic-based algorithm · 2.3large language model · 2.3image-based neural network · 2.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | AltGosling: automatic generation of text descriptions for accessible genomics data visualizationabstractMOTIVATION: Biomedical visualizations are key to accessing biomedical knowledge and detecting new patterns in large datasets. Interactive visualizations are essential for biomedical data scientists and are omnipresent in data analysis software and data portals. Without appropriate descriptions, these visualizations are not accessible to all people with blindness and low vision, who often rely on screen reader accessibility technologies to access visual information on digital devices. Screen readers require descriptions to convey image content. However, many images lack informative descriptions due to unawareness and difficulty writing such descriptions. Describing complex and interactive visualizations, like genomics data visualizations, is even more challenging. Automatic generation of descriptions could be beneficial, yet current alt text generating models are limited to basic visualizations and cannot be used for genomics. RESULTS: We present AltGosling, an automated description generation tool focused on interactive data visualizations of genome-mapped data, created with the grammar-based genomics toolkit Gosling. The logic-based algorithm of AltGosling creates various descriptions including a tree-structured navigable panel. We co-designed AltGosling with a blind screen reader user (co-author). We show that AltGosling outperforms state-of-the-art large language models and common image-based neural networks for alt text generation of genomics data visualizations. As a first of its kind in genomic research, we lay the groundwork to increase accessibility in the field. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code, examples, and interactive demo are accessible under the MIT License at https://github.com/gosling-lang/altgosling. The package is available at https://www.npmjs.com/package/altgosling. Thomas C. Smits, Sehi L'Yi, Andrew P. Mar, Nils Gehlenborg |
Bioinform. | 3 |