Defragmenting Research Areas with Knowledge Visualization and Visual Text Analytics

Autor: Roberto Therón, Alejandro Benito-Santos
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Computer science
media_common.quotation_subject
Sports science
02 engineering and technology
lcsh:Technology
Market fragmentation
lcsh:Chemistry
author-assigned keywords
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

knowledge visualization
General Materials Science
Use case
Instrumentation
lcsh:QH301-705.5
media_common
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Focus (computing)
Creative visualization
lcsh:T
visual text analytics
Process Chemistry and Technology
General Engineering
020207 software engineering
Statistical model
distributional similarity
Data science
lcsh:QC1-999
Computer Science Applications
Visualization
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
lcsh:TA1-2040
Specialization (logic)
methodology transfer
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
problem-driven visualization research
lcsh:Physics
Zdroj: Applied Sciences
Volume 10
Issue 20
Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 7248, p 7248 (2020)
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app10207248
Popis: The increasing specialization of science is motivating the fragmentation of traditional and well-established research areas into interdisciplinary communities of practice that focus on cooperation between experts to solve problems in a wide range of domains. This is the case of problem-driven visualization research (PDVR), in which groups of scholars use visualization techniques in different application domains such as the digital humanities, bioinformatics, sports science, or computer security. In this paper, we employ the findings obtained during the development of a novel visual text analytics tool we built in previous studies, GlassViz, to automatically detect interesting knowledge associations and groups of common interests between these communities of practice. Our proposed method relies on the statistical modeling of author-assigned keywords to make its findings, which are demonstrated in two use cases. The results show that it is possible to propose interactive, semisupervised visual approaches that aim at defragmenting a body of research using text-based, automatic literature analysis methods.
Databáze: OpenAIRE