SocialVisTUM: An Interactive Visualization Toolkit for Correlated Neural Topic Models on Social Media Opinion Mining

Gerhard Hagerer, Martin Kirchhoff, Hannah Danner, Robert Pesch, Mainak Ghosh, Archishman Roy, Jiaxi Zhao, Georg Groh

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Abstract

Recent research in opinion mining proposed word embedding-based topic modeling methods that provide superior coherence compared to traditional topic modeling. In this paper, we demonstrate how these methods can be used to display correlated topic models on social media texts using SocialVisTUM, our proposed interactive visualization toolkit. It displays a graph with topics as nodes and their correlations as edges. Further details are displayed interactively to support the exploration of large text collections, e.g., representative words and sentences of topics, topic and sentiment distributions, hierarchical topic clustering, and customizable, predefined topic labels. The toolkit optimizes automatically on custom data for optimal coherence. We show a working instance of the toolkit on data crawled from English social media discussions about organic food consumption. The visualization confirms findings of a qualitative consumer research study. SocialVisTUM and its training procedures are accessible online.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2021
Subtitle of host publicationDeep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications - Proceedings
EditorsGalia Angelova, Maria Kunilovskaya, Ruslan Mitkov, Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva
PublisherIncoma Ltd
Pages475-482
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789544520724
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
EventInternational Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications, RANLP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 1 Sep 20213 Sep 2021

Publication series

NameInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP
ISSN (Print)1313-8502

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications, RANLP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period1/09/213/09/21

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