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This paper describes the design and development of the Topic Map, a visualization and user interaction component of a cloud-based tool, Archimedes. Archimedes is designed to help individuals and teams examine and organize the results of a literature search and use them to understand the space that they are researching. The Topic Map is a document surrogate, designed to help the user visualize the topic space represented by the search corpus. It shows frequently occurring but generally uncommon topics in a user’s workspace corpus. The Topic Mapper component generates the Topic Map automatically by extracting a list of topic phrases from the papers in the workspace, filtering and prioritizing what is displayed to the user based on a set of rules. It then visually distributes them in a two-dimensional space. This paper describes the motivation and design of the topic extraction implementation and its user interaction capabilities within Archimedes.
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The authors thank teammates and collaborators for contributions to concepts and implementations reported here including Tyree Cowell, Timothy Siggins, Dr. Jennifer Fowlkes, Kelly Neville, Caitlin Tenison, Austin Brehob, Dana Foley, and Ryan Yao. Opinions ex-pressed here are not necessarily those of the Department of Defense or the sponsor of this effort, the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD). This work funded under contract N68335-19-C-0004.
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Trewhitt, E.B., Whitaker, E.T., Wray, R.E., Riddle, D. (2021). Topic Mapping to Support Users in Literature Search. In: Nazir, S., Ahram, T.Z., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80000-0_41
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