Visual Analysis and Knowledge Discovery for Text [chapter]

Christin Seifert, Vedran Sabol, Wolfgang Kienreich, Elisabeth Lex, Michael Granitzer
2013 Large-Scale Data Analytics  
Providing means for effectively accessing and exploring large textual data sets is a problem attracting the attention of text mining and information visualization experts alike. The rapid growth of the data volume and heterogeneity, as well as the richness of metadata and the dynamic nature of text repositories, add to the complexity of the task. This chapter provides an overview of data visualization methods for gaining insight into large, heterogeneous, dynamic textual data sets. We argue
more » ... visual analysis, in combination with automatic knowledge discovery methods, provides several advantages. Besides introducing human knowledge and visual pattern recognition into the analytical process, it provides the possibility to improve the performance of automatic methods through user feedback.
doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-9242-9_7 fatcat:5ti6ubvuj5d5dhfjg6eyiyld6m