Poster Presentation

Poster B97 in Poster Session B: Tuesday, August 4, 2:00 – 3:45 pm, Kimmel Center, Shorin & Rosenthal Rooms

CCN Over the Years: A Submission Visualizer

Kahini Mehta, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana

Presenter: Kahini Mehta

CCN Visualizer (https://ccn-visualizer.vercel.app/) is an interactive webpage for exploring Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference submissions throughout the years. It summarizes 2925 posters from the public CCN archives (2017-2026) into a single searchable interface. The visualization is a static front end served from scraped data that allows fast loading speed despite traffic. Users can filter by year and theme, search across submissions, and inspect individual abstracts. Each submission is assigned research themes drawn from Google Form polls and the manual oversight of an LLM-assisted label-assignment process. Topic areas are assigned to each submission offline via an LLM, using title, abstract, and keywords. These topic areas can be used to filter through the submissions or observe how research at CCN has evolved over the years. Text embeddings generated via TF-IDF are also projected into a two-dimensional map via UMAP clustering. On that map, proximity reflects the semantic similarity of different posters, so clusters show posters that are close in content. Using the dashboard, researchers can examine how different topics may co-occur, and understand how their research might fit in with other conference submissions. Thus, the dashboard can also help highlight researchers with similar interests, promoting collaborative science.