Topic modelling applied to a second language: A language adaption and tool evaluation studyVisa övriga samt affilieringar
2020 (Engelska)Ingår i: Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019 / [ed] Kiril Simov and Maria Eskevich, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2020, s. 145-156, artikel-id 17Konferensbidrag, Publicerat paper (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]
The Topics2Themes tool, which enables text analysis on the output of topic modelling, was originally developed for the English language. In this study, we explored and evaluated adaptations required for applying the tool to Japanese texts. That is, we adapted Topics2Themes to a language that is very different from the one for which the tool was originally developed. To apply Topics2Themes to Japanese texts, in which white space is not used for indicating word boundaries, the texts had to be pre-tokenised and white space inserted to indicate a token segmentation. Topics2Themes was also extended by the addition of word translations and phonetic readings to support users who are second-language speakers of Japanese. To evaluate the adaptation to a second language, as well as the reading support, we applied the tool to a corpus consisting of short Japanese texts. Twelve different topics were automatically identified, and a total of 183 texts representative for the twelve topics were extracted. A learner of Japanese carried out a manual analysis of these representative texts, and identified 35 reoccurring, fine-grained themes.
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Linköping University Electronic Press, 2020. s. 145-156, artikel-id 17
Serie
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, ISSN 1650-3686, E-ISSN 1650-3740 ; 172
Nyckelord [en]
Topic Models, Visualization, Japanese, Text Mining, Visual Text Analysis
Nationell ämneskategori
Språkbehandling och datorlingvistik Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign)
Forskningsämne
Datavetenskap, Informations- och programvisualisering
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-189513DOI: 10.3384/ecp2020172017ISBN: 978-91-7929-807-4 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-189513DiVA, id: diva2:1705903
Konferens
CLARIN Annual Conference 2019, 30 September - 2 October 2019, Leipzig, Germany
Forskningsfinansiär
Vetenskapsrådet, 2017-006262022-10-242022-10-242025-02-01