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Perspectives - Interactive Document Clustering in the Discourse Analysis Tool Suite

Tim Fischer, Chris Biemann · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 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.

Human Data Lens

  • Uses human feedback: Yes
  • Feedback types: Demonstrations
  • Rater population: Unknown
  • Unit of annotation: Unknown
  • Expertise required: General

Evaluation Lens

  • Evaluation modes: Automatic Metrics
  • Agentic eval: None
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Confidence: 0.65
  • Flags: None

Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • 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

Why It Matters For Eval

  • 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.

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