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Using Font Attributes in Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval

Brath, R. and E. Banissi, First Workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR 2014)

Font specific attributes, such as bold, italic and case can be used in knowledge mapping and information retrieval to encode additional data in texts, lists and labels to increase data density of visualizations; encode data quantitative data into search lists; and facilitate text skimming and refinement by visually promoting of words of interest.