Text mining and social network analysis on computer science and engineering theses in Turkey
Volkan Tunalı, Turgay Tugay Bilgin · 2014
In this study, we examined 6,834 master's and PhD theses conducted on computer science and engineering between 1994 and 2013 in Turkey. Thesis data were compiled from the YÖK national thesis database web portal. We used text mining techniques to extract research concepts and their co-occurrence data from graduate thesis abstracts. Then, we applied social network analysis techniques on the concept co-occurrence networks to visually explore core research concepts, and connections and relationships among them. We showed that text mining and social network analysis techniques together were very effective for knowledge discovery in scientific documents in computer science and engineering domain.