Word Cloud Analytics of the Computer Science Research Publications’ Titles over the Past Half Century

摘要

The field of computer science is becoming increasingly important as almost every aspect of our lives is more and more dependent on computers and the Internet. As a result, computer hardware and software technology are rapidly increasing in power and sophistication. Consequently, the data and the research topics and publications in this field are also evolving rapidly. In this study we used the data form the Computer Science Bibliography DBLP database for the research publications in the field of Computer Science the past 50 years. Further on, we analyze the articles (journal publications) and proceedings as categories with larger numbers of entries and that provide more significant outcomes. The overall dataset is split in decades and for better demonstration of the information and the evolving topics, text visualization tool was applied.The results generated by using word clouds provide a much faster and easier way to detect the topics and other changing details about the publications in each decade of the past half century.