Point Placement by Phylogenetic Trees and its Application to Visual Analysis of Document Collections Ana M. Cuadros (anamaria@icmc.usp.br ) Fernando V. Paulovich (paulovic@icmc.usp.br ) Rosane Minghim (rminghim@icmc.usp.br ) Guilherme P. Telles (gpt@icmc.usp.br ) Infovis2/MineVis Project: http:// infoserver.lcad.icmc.usp.br / University of São Paulo, São Carlos/SP, Brazil Mathematical and Computer Sciences Institute (ICMC) Computer Science Department