Optimizing temporal topic segmentation for intelligent text visualization

  • Authors:
  • Shimei Pan;Michelle X. Zhou;Yangqiu Song;Weihong Qian;Fei Wang;Shixia Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA;IBM Research, Almaden, California, USA;HKUST, Hong Kong, China;IBM Research, Beijing, China;IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We are building a topic-based, interactive visual analytic tool that aids users in analyzing large collections of text. To help users quickly discover content evolution and significant content transitions within a topic over time, here we present a novel, constraint-based approach to temporal topic segmentation. Our solution splits a discovered topic into multiple linear, non-overlapping sub-topics along a timeline by satisfying a diverse set of semantic, temporal, and visualization constraints simultaneously. For each derived sub-topic, our solution also automatically selects a set of representative keywords to summarize the main content of the sub-topic. Our extensive evaluation, including a crowd-sourced user study, demonstrates the effectiveness of our method over an existing baseline.