Viewed end-on, you get a composite view of the doc. Multi-faceted Insight Through Interoperable Visual Information Analysis Paradigms. Beth Hetzler, Paul Whitney, Lou Martucci, Jim Thomas. Multi-faceted Insight Through Interoperable Visual Information Analysis Paradigms. Different sentence retrieval algorithms could have corresponding Value Bars if a document was viewed as a long list of sentences.
Bars consisting of stacks of short horizontal lines represent the text.
Each bar could represent a chapter, each horizontal line could represent a sentence, and the length, indentation, and color of each line could represent such dimensions of a sentence as its length, indentation, and the configuration of desired keywords specified in a query.