Argviz: Interactive Visualization of Topic Dynamics in Multi-party Conversations

We introduce an efficient, interactive framework—Argviz—for experts to analyze the dynamic topical structure of multi-party conversations. Users inject their needs, expertise, and insights into models via iterative topic refinement. The refined topics feed into a segmentation model, whose outputs are shown to users via multiple coordinated views.

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