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Traditionally, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) ingests words in a collection of documents to discover their latent topics using word-document co-occurrences. However, it is unclear how to achieve the best results for languages without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Jin Cheevaprawatdomrong , Alexandra Schofield , Attapol T. Rutherford

Scientific publications have evolved several features for mitigating vocabulary mismatch when indexing, retrieving, and computing similarity between articles. These mitigation strategies range from simply focusing on high-value article…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-20 Kriste Krstovski , Michael J. Kurtz , David A. Smith , Alberto Accomazzi

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

Authorship attribution refers to the task of automatically determining the author based on a given sample of text. It is a problem with a long history and has a wide range of application. Building author profiles using language models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Zhenhao Ge , Yufang Sun

Social scientists employ latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to find highly specific topics in large corpora, but they often struggle in this task because (1) LDA, in general, takes a significant amount of time to fit on large corpora; (2)…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Kohei Watanabe

Topic modeling is used for discovering latent semantic structure, usually referred to as topics, in a large collection of documents. The most widely used methods are Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Dimo Angelov

Topic modeling based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has been a framework of choice to perform scene recognition and annotation. Recently, a new type of topic model called the Document Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-24 Yin Zheng , Yu-Jin Zhang , Hugo Larochelle

Topic modeling is a state-of-the-art technique for analyzing text corpora. It uses a statistical model, most commonly Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to discover abstract topics that occur in the document collection. However, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Valerie Müller , Christian Sieg , Lars Linsen

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

Large language models (LLMs) can produce long, coherent passages of text, suggesting that LLMs, although trained on next-word prediction, must represent the latent structure that characterizes a document. Prior work has found that internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Liyi Zhang , R. Thomas McCoy , Theodore R. Sumers , Jian-Qiao Zhu , Thomas L. Griffiths

Conventional bag-of-words approaches for topic modeling, like latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), struggle with literary text. Literature challenges lexical methods because narrative language focuses on immersive sensory details instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Li Lucy , Camilla Griffiths , Sarah Levine , Jennifer L. Eberhardt , Dorottya Demszky , David Bamman

In this paper we demonstrate the applicability of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for classifying large Web document collections. One of our main results is a novel influence model that gives a fully generative model of the document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-06-28 István Bíró , Jácint Szabó

This article reviews the Author-Topic Model and presents a new non-parametric extension based on the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process. The extension is especially suitable when no prior information about the number of components necessary is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-05 Arnim Bleier

Bibliographic analysis considers author's research areas, the citation network and paper content among other things. In this paper, we combine these three in a topic model that produces a bibliographic model of authors, topics and documents…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Kar Wai Lim , Wray Buntine

We investigate ways in which to improve the interpretability of LDA topic models by better analyzing and visualizing their outputs. We focus on examining what we refer to as topic similarity networks: graphs in which nodes represent latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Arun S. Maiya , Robert M. Rolfe

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for exploring document collections. Because of the increasing prevalence of large datasets, there is a need to improve the scalability of inference of LDA. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Ke Zhai , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Nima Asadi

The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, we present Indexing by Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDI), an automatic document indexing method. The probability distributions in LDI utilize those in Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Yanshan Wang , Jae-Sung Lee , In-Chan Choi

Language models are typically applied at the sentence level, without access to the broader document context. We present a neural language model that incorporates document context in the form of a topic model-like architecture, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

Automatic classification of scientific articles based on common characteristics is an interesting problem with many applications in digital library and information retrieval systems. Properly organized articles can be useful for automatic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Shameem A Puthiya Parambath

Recently there has been significant activity in developing algorithms with provable guarantees for topic modeling. In standard topic models, a topic (such as sports, business, or politics) is viewed as a probability distribution $\vec a_i$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Avrim Blum , Nika Haghtalab