Perspectives - Interactive Document Clustering in the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15540v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:44:05 GMT
• Title: Perspectives - Interactive Document Clustering in the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite
• Authors: Tim Fischer, Chris Biemann,
• Abstract summary: Perspectives is a tool suite designed to empower Digital Humanities (DH) scholars to explore and organize large, unstructured document collections.<n> Perspectives implements a flexible, aspect-focused document clustering pipeline with human-in-the-loop refinement capabilities.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper introduces Perspectives, an interactive extension of the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite designed to empower Digital Humanities (DH) scholars to explore and organize large, unstructured document collections. Perspectives implements a flexible, aspect-focused document clustering pipeline with human-in-the-loop refinement capabilities. We showcase how this process can be initially steered by defining analytical lenses through document rewriting prompts and instruction-based embeddings, and further aligned with user intent through tools for refining clusters and mechanisms for fine-tuning the embedding model. The demonstration highlights a typical workflow, illustrating how DH researchers can leverage Perspectives's interactive document map to uncover topics, sentiments, or other relevant categories, thereby gaining insights and preparing their data for subsequent in-depth analysis.

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