Unsupervised Topic Detection in document collections: an application in marketing and business journals
by Reinhold Decker, Soren W. Scholz
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (IJBIDM), Vol. 2, No. 3, 2007

Abstract: The rapid increase of publications in marketing and related areas increasingly hampers the realisation of a general idea of what is 'hot' in the respective fields of interest. Topic Detection (TD), based on unsupervised text clustering, is a promising approach to tackle this problem. We introduce a new methodology that facilitates the determination of the number of topics discussed in a given text collection. By applying this approach to a text corpus which includes 12 international marketing and business journals we identify hot spots in marketing science. The approach may help both scientists and practitioners to systematically discover topics in digital information environments, as provided by the internet for instance.

Online publication date: Fri, 19-Oct-2007

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