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¹University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. d.angus@uq.edu.au

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Computational Linguistics
Information Visualization
Social Network Analysis

Background:

Human discourse is rich in conceptual information, but visualizing its patterns is challenging.
Recurrence plots reveal trends in time series data by measuring point similarity.
Existing recurrence plot methods for text use term-based similarity, not conceptual meaning.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and evaluate conceptual recurrence plots for analyzing human discourse.
To demonstrate a novel method for visualizing conceptual similarity in text.
To explore patterns of interaction within conversation transcripts.

Main Methods:

Developed conceptual recurrence plots using a language model to measure text utterance similarity.
Applied the technique to analyze conversation transcripts.
Visualized pairwise text similarity in a two-dimensional plot.

Main Results:

Conceptual recurrence plots effectively reveal global and local patterns in discourse.
The technique identified interaction structures within conversation transcripts.
Demonstrated the descriptive power of conceptual recurrence plotting for discourse analysis.

Conclusions:

Conceptual recurrence plots offer a powerful new tool for exploring human discourse structure.
This method advances text visualization by incorporating conceptual similarity.
The technique has potential applications in understanding conversational dynamics.