Understanding Massive Text Visualization

Massive text visualization is a burgeoning field that addresses the visualization, exploration, and analysis of extensive textual datasets, encompassing various domains such as social media, scientific literature, news articles, and more. This paper overviews recent advances, challenges, and potential solutions in massive text visualization and systematically categorizes these works, focusing on shared characteristics such as objectives, preprocessing techniques, processing approaches, and visualization methods. This comprehensive analysis can better understand the current and emerging trends in massive text visualization.