Enriching digital collections using tools for text mining, indexing and visualisation

RIZA BATISTA-NAVARRO; AXEL J. SOTO; NHUNG T.H. NGUYEN; WILLIAM ULATE; SOPHIA ANANIADOU

Tesalónica

Conferencia; 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2017; 2017

TPDL

The tutorial demonstrated a suite of tools for text mining, semantic indexing and visualization that facilitated enhanced searching and exploration of digital collections. Specifically, we aimed to provide: ? an introduction to modular text mining and indexing workflows developed using the Argo platform (http://argo.nactem.ac.uk); ? an overview of the Elasticsearch indexing engine and the Kibana visualization platform; ? the know-how on building and visualizing semantic indexes over digital collections without any programming effort. The tutorial will cover the end-to-end automatic generation and visualization of a semantically enabled search index over digital collections. By the end of the tutorial, the audience will have gained knowledge on: ? exemplar digital collections (e.g., the Biodiversity Heritage Library, British Medical Journal) enhanced with text-mined semantic metadata and visualization tools; ? information extraction methods for generating semantic metadata over textual collections; ? employing Argo to construct text mining workflows that generate Elastic-search indexes for searching over digital collections; ? using the Kibana platform to generate dashboards and visually explore digital collections indexed with Elasticsearch.