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Defining Interdisciplinarity through Topic Modelling Technique: An AI-Driven Approach

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nterdisciplinary studies or research is a method of integrating knowledge and 
perspective from multiple disciplines to address complex problems. 
Interdisciplinarity consists of collaboration and cooperation from different fields 
to assemble together diverse perspectives and approaches in order to find 
innovative solutions. In this paper, we have measured interdisciplinarity using 
topic modelling approach. Topic modelling is an unsupervised natural language 
processing (NLP) technique for creating structured data from a collection of 
unstructured textual corpus without predefined training data. This text mining 
method have discovered hidden semantic patterns demonstrated by a text 
corpus to produce cluster of words, called “topics”.  
In this article, we have collected data from The Lens database (www.lens.org) and then applied topic 
modeling approach using the tool Coconut Libtool (www.coconut-libtool.com/). The final output is shown 
by network graphs, sunburst visualization, chord diagram etc. The main objective of the paper is to define 
the perspective of interdisciplinarity through topic model techniques.  

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