back
Conference papers
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research

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

Hagerer, Gerhard; Kirchhoff, Martin; Danner, Hannah; Pesch, Robert; Ghosh, Mainak; Roy, Archishman; Jiaxi, Zhao; Groh, Georg (2021). SocialVisTUM: An Interactive Visualization Toolkit for Correlated Neural Topic Models on Social Media Opinion Mining in: Galia Angelova et al. (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) - Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen 2021, 475-482.

Recent research in opinion mining proposedword 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.

Event: International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Shoumen, 2021-09-01