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TIARA: A visual exploratory text analytic system

  • Furu Wei*
  • , Shixia Liu
  • , Yangqiu Song
  • , Shimei Pan
  • , Michelle X. Zhou
  • , Weihong Qian
  • , Lei Shi
  • , Li Tan
  • , Qiang Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • IBM

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel exploratory visual analytic system called TIARA (Text Insight via Automated Responsive Analytics), which combines text analytics and interactive visualization to help users explore and analyze large collections of text. Given a collection of documents, TIARA first uses topic analysis techniques to summarize the documents into a set of topics, each of which is represented by a set of keywords. In addition to extracting topics, TIARA derives time-sensitive keywords to depict the content evolution of each topic over time. To help users understand the topic-based summarization results, TIARA employs several interactive text visualization techniques to explain the summarization results and seamlessly link such results to the original text. We have applied TIARA to several real-world applications, including email summarization and patient record analysis. To measure the effectiveness of TIARA, we have conducted several experiments. Our experimental results and initial user feedback suggest that TIARA is effective in aiding users in their exploratory text analytic tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDD'10 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Pages153-162
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD-2010 - Washington, DC, United States
Duration: 25 Jul 201028 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD-2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington, DC
Period25/07/1028/07/10

Keywords

  • Document summarization
  • Exploratory analytics
  • Interactive visualization
  • Topic analysis
  • Visual text analytics

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