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


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.
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2021.ranlp-1.54
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021)
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September
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2021
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Held Online
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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Gerhard Hagerer, Martin Kirchhoff, Hannah Danner, Robert Pesch, Mainak Ghosh, Archishman Roy, Jiaxi Zhao, and Georg Groh. 2021. SocialVisTUM: An Interactive Visualization Toolkit for Correlated Neural Topic Models on Social Media Opinion Mining. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), pages 475–482, Held Online. INCOMA Ltd..
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