Visualized Clustering of Ideas for Group Argumentation

Abstract

This paper addresses visualized clustering methods that are embedded in CorMap and iView analysis of ideas towards the concerned topic. K-means clustering, automatic affinity diagram (KJ method) and self-organizing map are applied to CorMap analysis and graph clustering algorithm is applied to iView analysis are introduced. We report the visualized clustering results of workshops of a famous scientific forum, show the features of each clustering and compare their performance.