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The explosive growth of textual data over time presents a significant challenge in uncovering evolving themes and trends. Existing dynamic topic modeling techniques, while powerful, often exist in fragmented pipelines that lack robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Suman Adhya , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

This note is a short description of TeCoMiner, an interactive tool for exploring the topic content of text collections. Unlike other topic modeling tools, TeCoMiner is not based on some generative probabilistic model but on topological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Andreas Hamm , Jana Thelen , Rasmus Beckmann , Simon Odrowski

Topic models are a family of statistical-based algorithms to summarize, explore and index large collections of text documents. After a decade of research led by computer scientists, topic models have spread to social science as a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Ryan Wesslen

Fine-grained user profile generation approaches have made it increasingly feasible to display on a profile page in which topics a user has expertise or interest. Earlier work on topical user profiling has been directed at enhancing search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Alex Olieman , Jaap Kamps , Gleb Satyukov , Emil de Valk

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for revealing underlying thematic structures within textual data. However, existing models have certain limitations, particularly when dealing with short text datasets that lack co-occurring words.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Han Wang , Nirmalendu Prakash , Nguyen Khoi Hoang , Ming Shan Hee , Usman Naseem , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Topic models have been the prominent tools for automatic topic discovery from text corpora. Despite their effectiveness, topic models suffer from several limitations including the inability of modeling word ordering information in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Topic modeling seems to be almost synonymous with generating lists of top words to represent topics within large text corpora. However, deducing a topic from such list of individual terms can require substantial expertise and experience,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Arik Reuter , Bishnu Khadka , Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Sebastian Fischer , Benjamin Säfken

One of the challenges for text analysis in medical domains is analyzing large-scale medical documents. As a consequence, finding relevant documents has become more difficult. One of the popular methods to retrieve information based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Amir Karami , Aryya Gangopadhyay , Bin Zhou , Hadi Kharrazi

Statistical topic models efficiently facilitate the exploration of large-scale data sets. Many models have been developed and broadly used to summarize the semantic structure in news, science, social media, and digital humanities. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Jian Tang , Cheng Li , Ming Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei

The basic classification techniques for organizing information are thesauri, taxonomy and faceted classification. Topic map is relatively a new entrant to this information space. Topic map standard describes how complex relationships…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2010-03-19 Rajkumar Kannan

Searching large digital repositories can be extremely frustrating, as common list-based formats encourage users to adopt a convenience-sampling approach that favours chance discovery and random search, over meaningful exploration. We have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Tanya Howden , Pierre Le Bras , Thomas S. Methven , Stefano Padilla , Mike J. Chantler

In scientific disciplines where research findings have a strong impact on society, reducing the amount of time it takes to understand, synthesize and exploit the research is invaluable. Topic modeling is an effective technique for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Jennifer Sleeman , Tim Finin , Milton Halem

Topic modeling analyzes documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. However, existing topic models fail to learn interpretable topics when working with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. To this end, we develop the Embedded Topic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei

Experts across diverse disciplines are often interested in making sense of large text collections. Traditionally, this challenge is approached either by noisy unsupervised techniques such as topic models, or by following a manual theme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Maria Leonor Pacheco , Tunazzina Islam , Lyle Ungar , Ming Yin , Dan Goldwasser

Neural language models are becoming the prevailing methodology for the tasks of query answering, text classification, disambiguation, completion and translation. Commonly comprised of hundreds of millions of parameters, these neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Blaž Škrlj , Nika Eržen , Shane Sheehan , Saturnino Luz , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Senja Pollak

Text summarization is an approach for identifying important information present within text documents. This computational technique aims to generate shorter versions of the source text, by including only the relevant and salient information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Kalliath Abdul Rasheed Issam , Shivam Patel , Subalalitha C. N

This article presents the results of investigations using topic modeling of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS408). Topic modeling is a set of computational methods which are used to identify clusters of subjects within text. We use latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Rachel Sterneck , Annie Polish , Claire Bowern

Thematic analysis (TA) is a widely used qualitative research method for identifying and interpreting patterns within textual data, such as qualitative interviews. Recent research has shown that it is possible to satisfactorily perform TA…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Stefano De Paoli , Alex Fawzi

Topic Modeling refers to the problem of discovering the main topics that have occurred in corpora of textual data, with solutions finding crucial applications in numerous fields. In this work, inspired by the recent advancements in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Topic models aim to reveal latent structures within a corpus of text, typically through the use of term-frequency statistics over bag-of-words representations from documents. In recent years, conceptual entities -- interpretable,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Manuel V. Loureiro , Steven Derby , Tri Kurniawan Wijaya