Word Rain

Publications about Word Rain

Peer-reviewed publications

• Ahltorp M. & Skeppstedt M. (2026). Multilingual Word Rains: Text Visualisation Built on Cross-Language Word Similarities. Selected papers from the CLARIN annual conference 2025.
• Skeppstedt M., Ahltorp M., Kucher K., Aangenendt G., Lindström M. & Söderfeldt Y. (2025). The Word Rain visualisation technique applied to digital history: How to visualise, explore and compare texts using semantically structured word clouds. In Huminfra handbook: Empowering digital and experimental humanities. (NEALT Proceedings Series 59).
• Ahltorp M. & Skeppstedt M. (2025). Word Rain as a service: Making semantically structured word clouds available to everyone. Selected papers from the CLARIN annual conference 2024.
• Skeppstedt, M., Ahltorp, M., Aangenendt, G., & Söderfeldt, Y. (2025). Further Developing the Word Rain Text Visualisation Technique in a Digital History Project. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. (Selected as “Best long paper” at the DHNB 2025 conference)
• Ahltorp A., Hessel J., Eriksson G., Skeppstedt M. Visualisering av ett lexikons täckning av olika textgenrer: Experiment med en jiddischordbok. Accepted for publication in: Nordiske Studier i Leksikografi. (In Swedish)
• Skeppstedt M., Aangenendt G. (2024). Using the Word Rain Technique to Visualize Longitudinal Changes in Periodicals from the Swedish Diabetes Association. Proceedings of Vis4NLP’24 – Visualization for Natural Language Processing (EuroVis 2024).
• Skeppstedt M., Ahltorp M., Kucher K., Lindström M. (2024). From Word Clouds to Word Rain: Revisiting the Classic Word Cloud to Visualize Climate Change Texts. Information Vizualisation.

Conference abstracts

• Ahltorp A. (2025). Using Word Rain to visualise ParlaMint debates between countries. In Proceedings from CLARIN Annual Conference 2025.
• Ginnerskov J., Hellman M., Skeppstedt M. (2025). Modeling the Emergence of a Collaborative Modus Operandi: The Case of “Samverkan” in Swedish Governance. 11th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2’25).
• Ahltorp A. & Skeppstedt M. (2024). 1 1/2 years of developing Word Rain. Extended abstract presented at Swedish Language Technology Conference.
• Skeppstedt M., Aangenendt G., & Söderfeldt Y. (2024). Visualizing longitudinal trends in digitized periodicals from the Swedish Diabetes Association. Presentation at the Huminfra Conference.
• Skeppstedt M. & Ahltorp, M (2023). The Words of Climate Change: TF-IDF-based word clouds derived from climate change reports. Poster at Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries.
• Rosenbaum P & Skeppstedt M (2023). Text Mining on Applications for Cultural Funding. CLARIN Bazaar poster. CLARIN Annual Conference, Leuven.
• Ahltorp A., Hessel J., Eriksson G., Skeppstedt M. (2023). Visualisering av ett lexikons täckning av olika textgenrer (In Swedish) . Den 17. konferansen om leksikografi i Norden.
• Ahltorp M (2023). Visualising Yiddish Text Genre Differences with Word Rain. CLARIN Bazaar poster. CLARIN Annual Conference, Leuven.

Presentations about Word Rain

• In English Lightning talk at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (2025)
  License: CC-BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) Chaos Computer Club e.V
• In English CLARIN 2024 presentation: Word Rain as a Service (Youtube)
• In Swedish Utbildningsradion (2024) from Språkrådsdagen

Blog posts about Word Rain

• In English Advancing the Reach of Digital Humanities
• In Swedish Höstworkshop i repris: Ordregn
• In Swedish Ordregn – en utveckling av det klassiska ordmolnet

Publications where the Word Rain technique is used

• Lindqvist, B. (2026). “Apart from that, just use common sense”: Combining Word Rain and thematic analysis to understand folk psychological phenomena. Master thesis in Cognitive Science, Linköping University.
• Neiders I., Kalēja J., Mileiko I., Poļaka I., Mežinska S. (2026). Ethical considerations in the clinical application of prediction tools for severe mental disorders: perspectives from child and adolescent psychiatrists. Global Bioethics Volume 37.
• Elmerot, I., Olsson, LJ. & Rönnbäck, K. (2026). Voices of formerly enslaved: A new text corpus of narratives by formerly enslaved persons. Sci Data 13, 682 (2026).
• Ekström B & Haider J (2026). A methodology for analysing informational textures: Skipping stones and noticing the ripples. Journal of Documentation, Vol. 82 No. 7.
• Nylander E. & Fagerlind J. (2025). Unveiling Vernacular Schooling: Building a Digital Archive of Folk High School In Abstracts from Huminfra Conference 2025.
• Wasielewski, A., & La Mela, M. (2025). What is Digital Humanities and what's it doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? Kod & Kultur: Institutionen för ABM i Uppsala 30 år – en forskarantologi.
• Squadrito, E., Frontini, F., Virgili, V., & Monachini, M. (2025). Unveiling Strategic Research Priorities: A Terminological Analysis of the ARCHE SRIA Using Word Rain. In proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Multilingual digital terminology today. Design, representation formats and management systems.
• Haider, J., Söderström, K. R., Ekström, B., & Rödl, M. (2024). GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.