Coconut Libtool

All-in-one data mining and textual analysis tool for everyone

About

In the era of big and ubiquitous data, professionals and students alike are finding themselves needing to perform a number of textual analysis tasks. Historically, the general lack of statistical expertise and programming skills has stopped many with humanities or social sciences backgrounds from performing and fully benefiting from such analyses. Thus, we introduce Coconut Libtool (this http URL), an open-source, web-based application that utilizes state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Coconut Libtool analyzes text data from customized files and bibliographic databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, and Lens. Users can verify which functions can be performed with the data they have. Coconut Libtool deploys multiple algorithmic NLP techniques at the backend, including topic modeling (LDA, Biterm, and BERTopic algorithms), network graph visualization, keyword lemmatization, and sunburst visualization. Coconut Libtool is the people-first web application designed to be used by professionals, researchers, and students in the information sciences, digital humanities, and computational social sciences domains to promote transparency, reproducibility, accessibility, reciprocity, and responsibility in research practices.

Coconut Libtool

Media

Publications

  1. Faizhal Arif Santosa, Manika Lamba, Crissandra J. George, J. Stephen Downie. (2024). Coconut LibTool: Bridging Textual Analysis Gaps for Non-Programmers. In 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Calgary, Canada. (acceptance rate: 30%)

  2. Faizhal Arif Santosa, Manika Lamba, Crissandra J. George. (2023). Coconut Library Tool: A Web-Based Application for Advanced Textual Analysis for Librarians. Research Showcase, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Team

  • Faizhal Arif Santosa, Librarian. National Research and Innovation Agency of The Republic of Indonesia
  • Crissandra George, Digital Collections Manager Librarian. Case Western Reserve University

Students Mentored

  • Hewei Tang, BS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Yujia Wei, MSIM, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign