Visualizing common sense connections with Luminoso

  • Authors:
  • Robert Speer;Catherine Havasi;Nichole Treadway;Henry Lieberman

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the first international workshop on Intelligent visual interfaces for text analysis
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present Luminoso, a tool that helps researchers to visualize and understand a dimensionality-reduced semantic space based on textual information by exploring it interactively. It streamlines the process of creating such a space by taking input from a directory of text documents, and optionally including common-sense background information. This interface is useful for interactively discovering trends in a text corpus, such as free-text responses to a survey. We discuss a case study about restaurant reviews to show how Luminoso can be used for opinion mining.