Termite: visualization techniques for assessing textual topic models

@inproceedings{Chuang2012TermiteVT,
  title={Termite: visualization techniques for assessing textual topic models},
  author={Jason Chuang and Christopher D. Manning and Jeffrey Heer},
  booktitle={International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces},
  year={2012}
}
Topic models aid analysis of text corpora by identifying latent topics based on co-occurring words. [] Key Method We contribute a novel saliency measure for selecting relevant terms and a seriation algorithm that both reveals clustering structure and promotes the legibility of related terms. In a series of examples, we demonstrate how Termite allows analysts to identify coherent and significant themes.
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