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tmfast fits topic models fast

Methodology 2023-05-03 v1 Computation

Abstract

tmfast is an R package for fitting topic models using a fast algorithm based on partial PCA and the varimax rotation. After providing mathematical background to the method, we present two examples, using a simulated corpus and aggregated works of a selection of authors from the long nineteenth century, and compare the quality of the fitted models to a standard topic modeling package.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.01535,
  title  = {tmfast fits topic models fast},
  author = {Daniel J. Hicks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01535},
  year   = {2023}
}
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