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Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument
Philipp Proff, Marian D\"ork
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13…

Textarium: Entangling Annotation, Abstraction and Argument
We present a web-based environment that connects annotation, abstraction, and argumentation during the interpretation of text. As a visual interface for scholarly reading and writing, Textarium combines human analysis with lightweight computational processing to bridge close and distant reading practices. Readers can highlight text, group keywords into concepts, and embed these observations as anchors in essays. The interface renders these interpretive actions as parameterized visualization sta…