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An initial procedure in text-as-data applications is text preprocessing. One of the typical steps, which can substantially facilitate computations, consists in removing infrequent words believed to provide limited information about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Victor Bystrov , Viktoriia Naboka-Krell , Anna Staszewska-Bystrova , Peter Winker

Statistical topic models are increasingly and popularly used by Digital Humanities scholars to perform distant reading tasks on literary data. It allows us to estimate what people talk about. Especially Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Thomas N. Haider

A popular approach to topic modeling involves extracting co-occurring n-grams of a corpus into semantic themes. The set of n-grams in a theme represents an underlying topic, but most topic modeling approaches are not able to label these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Justin Wood , Patrick Tan , Wei Wang , Corey Arnold

The Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model is a popular method for creating mixed-membership clusters. Despite having been originally developed for text analysis, LDA has been used for a wide range of other applications. We propose a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Gilson Shimizu , Rafael Izbicki , Denis Valle

Two challenging problems in the clinical study of cancer are the characterization of cancer subtypes and the classification of individual patients according to those subtypes. Statistical approaches addressing these problems are hampered by…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-02-28 John A. Dawson , Christina Kendziorski

This paper proposes a topic modeling method that scales linearly to billions of documents. We make three core contributions: i) we present a topic modeling method, Tensor Latent Dirichlet Allocation (TLDA), that has identifiable and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sara Kangaslahti , Danny Ebanks , Jean Kossaifi , Anqi Liu , R. Michael Alvarez , Animashree Anandkumar

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is an important hierarchical Bayesian model for probabilistic topic modeling, which attracts worldwide interests and touches on many important applications in text mining, computer vision and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jia Zeng , William K. Cheung , Jiming Liu

Context: Topic modeling finds human-readable structures in unstructured textual data. A widely used topic modeler is Latent Dirichlet allocation. When run on different datasets, LDA suffers from "order effects" i.e. different topics are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Amritanshu Agrawal , Wei Fu , Tim Menzies

The recent advancement of large language models has spurred a growing trend of integrating pre-trained language model (PLM) embeddings into topic models, fundamentally reshaping how topics capture semantic structure. Classical models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanlin Xiao , Mauricio A. Álvarez , Rainer Breitling

Extracting and identifying latent topics in large text corpora has gained increasing importance in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most models, whether probabilistic models similar to Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or neural topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Anton Thielmann , Quentin Seifert , Arik Reuter , Elisabeth Bergherr , Benjamin Säfken

In this paper, we propose guaranteed spectral methods for learning a broad range of topic models, which generalize the popular Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). We overcome the limitation of LDA to incorporate arbitrary topic correlations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Forough Arabshahi , Animashree Anandkumar

Generating user interpretable multi-class predictions in data rich environments with many classes and explanatory covariates is a daunting task. We introduce Diagonal Orthant Latent Dirichlet Allocation (DOLDA), a supervised topic model for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-21 Måns Magnusson , Leif Jonsson , Mattias Villani

One of the main computational and scientific challenges in the modern age is to extract useful information from unstructured texts. Topic models are one popular machine-learning approach which infers the latent topical structure of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-20 Martin Gerlach , Tiago P. Peixoto , Eduardo G. Altmann

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for discovery of hidden semantic architecture of text datasets, and plays a fundamental role in many machine learning applications. However, like many other machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Fangyuan Zhao , Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Xinyu Yang

There has been an increasingly popular trend in Universities for curriculum transformation to make teaching more interactive and suitable for online courses. An increase in the popularity of online courses would result in an increase in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Nikhil Fernandes , Alexandra Gkolia , Nicolas Pizzo , James Davenport , Akshar Nair

In this paper, we propose a method for resume rating using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and entity detection with SpaCy. The proposed method first extracts relevant entities such as education, experience, and skills from the resume…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Vidhita Jagwani , Smit Meghani , Krishna Pai , Sudhir Dhage

In this paper, we propose a new variant of Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to solve multi-label classification tasks. The proposed method is based on a probabilistic model for defining the weights of individual samples in a weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Lei Xu , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

In this article we propose and validate an unsupervised probabilistic model, Gaussian Latent Dirichlet Allocation (GLDA), for the problem of discrete state discovery from repeated, multivariate psychophysiological samples collected from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Congyu Wu , Aaron Fisher , David Schnyer

This paper presents an algorithm for the unsupervised learning of latent variable models from unlabeled sets of data. We base our technique on spectral decomposition, providing a technique that proves to be robust both in theory and in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-05 Matteo Ruffini , Marta Casanellas , Ricard Gavaldà

Topic Modeling is an approach used for automatic comprehension and classification of data in a variety of settings, and perhaps the canonical application is in uncovering thematic structure in a corpus of documents. A number of foundational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ankur Moitra