Causal Inference in Graph-Text Constellations:Designing Verbally Annotated Graphs

Multimodal documents combining language and graphs are wide-spread in print media as well as in electronic media.One of the most important tasks to be solved in comprehending graph-text combinations is construction of causal chains among the meaning entities provided by modalities.In this study we focus on the role of annotation position and shape of graph lines in simple line graphs on causal attributions concerning the event presented by the annotation and the processes (i.e.increases and decreases) and s...