Topic- and Time-Oriented Visual Text Analysis

In this article, we first present the benefit of combing text analysis (topic models in particular) with interactive visualization. We then highlight examples from prior work on topic and time-oriented visual text analysis. Lastly, we present four challenges that warrant additional future research in the field of visual text analysis.

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