Abstract
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in finding core issues and analyzing emerging trends for the future. This represents efforts to devise national strategies and policies based on the selection of promising areas that can create economic and social added value. The existing studies, including those dedicated to the discovery of future promising fields, have mostly been dependent on qualitative research methods such as literature review and expert judgement. Deriving results from large amounts of information under this approach is both costly and time consuming. Efforts have been made to make up for the weaknesses of the conventional qualitative analysis approach designed to select key promising areas through discovery of future core issues and emerging trend analysis in various areas of academic research. There needs to be a paradigm shift in toward implementing qualitative research methods along with quantitative research methods like text mining in a mutually complementary manner. The change is to ensure objective and practical emerging trend analysis results based on large amounts of data. However, even such studies have had shortcoming related to their dependence on simple keywords for analysis, which makes it difficult to derive meaning from data. Besides, no study has been carried out so far to develop core issues and analyze emerging trends in special domains like the aviation industry. The change used to implement recent studies is being witnessed in various areas such as the steel industry, the information and communications technology industry, the construction industry in architectural engineering and so on. This study focused on retrieving aviation-related core issues and emerging trends from overall research papers pertaining to aviation through text mining, which is one of the big data analysis techniques. In this manner, the promising future areas for the air transport industry are selected based on objective data from aviation-related research papers. In order to compensate for the difficulties in grasping the meaning of single words in emerging trend analysis at keyword levels, this study will adopt topic analysis, which is a technique used to find out general themes latent in text document sets. The analysis will lead to the extraction of topics, which represent keyword sets, thereby discovering core issues and conducting emerging trend analysis. Based on the issues, it identified aviation-related research trends and selected the promising areas for the future. Research on core issue retrieval and emerging trend analysis for the aviation industry based on big data analysis is still in its incipient stages. So, the analysis targets for this study are restricted to data from aviation-related research papers. However, it has significance in that it prepared a quantitative analysis model for continuously monitoring the derived core issues and presenting directions regarding the areas with good prospects for the future. In the future, the scope is slated to expand to cover relevant domestic or international news articles and bidding information as well, thus increasing the reliability of analysis results. On the basis of the topic analysis results, core issues for the aviation industry will be determined. Then, emerging trend analysis for the issues will be implemented by year in order to identify the changes they undergo in time series. Through these procedures, this study aims to prepare a system for developing key promising areas for the future aviation industry as well as for ensuring rapid response. Additionally, the promising areas selected based on the aforementioned results and the analysis of pertinent policy research reports will be compared with the areas in which the actual government investments are made. The results from this comparative analysis are expected to make useful reference materials for future policy development and budget establishment.
최근 경제적 사회적 부가가치를 창출할 수 있는 유망분야를 선정하여 국가 전략 및 정책 수립 시 반영하기 위해 미래 핵심 이슈를 발견하고 트렌드를 분석하는 것에 대한 관심이 급증하고 있다. 기존에는 미래의 핵심 기술이나 이슈를 발견하고 트렌드 분석을 통해 미래유망분야를 선정하는 연구를 위해 문헌 조사 또는 전문가 평가와 같은 정성적 연구방법이 사용되어 왔다. 그러나 이 연구방법은 대량의 정보로부터 결과를 도출하는데 많은 시간과 비용이 소요될 뿐만 아니라 전문가의 주관적인 가치가 반영될 가능성이 존재한다. 이와 같은 한계점을 보완하고자 최근 국토교통, 안전, 정보통신기술 등 다양한 분야에서 미래유망분야를 선정하기 위하여 정성적 연구방법에 텍스트 마이닝과 같은 정량적 연구방법을 상호 보완적으로 활용하는 방식으로 트렌드 분석을 수행하는 연구 방법론의 패러다임 변화가 시도되고 있다. 본 연구는 항공산업 전반적인 분야에 빅데이터 분석 방법인 텍스트 마이닝 기법을 적용하여 항공 분야의 연구동향을 파악하고 미래유망분야를 전망하였다. 텍스트 마이닝 기법 중하나인 토픽 분석을 이용하여 항공산업 전반적인 분야의 문서 집합 내 잠재된 토픽을 추출하고, 연도별로 핵심 토픽의 추이를 분석하였다. 분석 결과 항공산업의 미래유망분야로 항공안전정책, 항공운임(저가항공), 그리고 친환경 고연비 연료가 도출되었다. 본 연구결과는 분석 대상을 논문에 한정하여 수행하였다는 한계점이 존재하나, 항공산업 분야의 핵심 이슈를 도출하기 위하여 텍스트 마이닝 기반의 트렌드 분석에 대한 활용가능성을 제시하고, 미래유망분야를 선정하기 위한 정량적인 분석 방법론의 전형을 마련하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다.
