ConceptVector: Text Visual Analytics via Interactive Lexicon Building Using Word Embedding

Deokgun Park, Seungyeon Kim, Jurim Lee, Jaegul Choo, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Niklas Elmqvist

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Abstract

Central to many text analysis methods is the notion of a concept: a set of semantically related keywords characterizing a specific object, phenomenon, or theme. Advances in word embedding allow building a concept from a small set of seed terms. However, naive application of such techniques may result in false positive errors because of the polysemy of natural language. To mitigate this problem, we present a visual analytics system called ConceptVector that guides a user in building such concepts and then using them to analyze documents. Document-analysis case studies with real-world datasets demonstrate the fine-grained analysis provided by ConceptVector. To support the elaborate modeling of concepts, we introduce a bipolar concept model and support for specifying irrelevant words. We validate the interactive lexicon building interface by a user study and expert reviews. Quantitative evaluation shows that the bipolar lexicon generated with our methods is comparable to human-generated ones.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8023823
Pages (from-to)361-370
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Jan

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was partially supported by NIH grant R01GM114267 and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (No. NRF-2016R1C1B2015924). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.

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Keywords

  • Text analytics
  • concepts
  • text classification
  • text summarization
  • visual analytics
  • word embedding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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