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Traditional topic models are effective at uncovering latent themes in large text collections. However, due to their reliance on bag-of-words representations, they struggle to capture semantically abstract features. While some neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Carolina Zheng , Nicolas Beltran-Velez , Sweta Karlekar , Claudia Shi , Achille Nazaret , Asif Mallik , Amir Feder , David M. Blei

Keyword extraction is a fundamental task in natural language processing that facilitates mapping of documents to a concise set of representative single and multi-word phrases. Keywords from text documents are primarily extracted using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Debanjan Mahata , John Kuriakose , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Roger Zimmermann , John R. Talburt

Topic models and all their variants analyse text by learning meaningful representations through word co-occurrences. As pointed out by Williamson et al. (2010), such models implicitly assume that the probability of a topic to be active and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramsés J. Sánchez , César Ojeda

Many classification models work poorly on short texts due to data sparsity. To address this issue, we propose topic memory networks for short text classification with a novel topic memory mechanism to encode latent topic representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jichuan Zeng , Jing Li , Yan Song , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Topic models are statistical tools that allow their users to gain qualitative and quantitative insights into the contents of textual corpora without the need for close reading. They can be applied in a wide range of settings from discourse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Márton Kardos , Kenneth C. Enevoldsen , Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo

Existing topic modeling and text segmentation methodologies generally require large datasets for training, limiting their capabilities when only small collections of text are available. In this work, we reexamine the inter-related problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qiong Wu , Adam Hare , Sirui Wang , Yuwei Tu , Zhenming Liu , Christopher G. Brinton , Yanhua Li

Topic models extract groups of words from documents, whose interpretation as a topic hopefully allows for a better understanding of the data. However, the resulting word groups are often not coherent, making them harder to interpret.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Federico Bianchi , Silvia Terragni , Dirk Hovy

Analyzing short texts infers discriminative and coherent latent topics that is a critical and fundamental task since many real-world applications require semantic understanding of short texts. Traditional long text topic modeling algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Qiang Jipeng , Qian Zhenyu , Li Yun , Yuan Yunhao , Wu Xindong

Topics play an important role in the global organisation of a conversation as what is currently discussed constrains the possible contributions of the participant. Understanding the way topics are organised in interaction would provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Amandine Decker , Maxime Amblard

Topic modelling has been a successful technique for text analysis for almost twenty years. When topic modelling met deep neural networks, there emerged a new and increasingly popular research area, neural topic models, with over a hundred…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Viet Huynh , Yuan Jin , Lan Du , Wray Buntine

The task of predicting fine grained user opinion based on spontaneous spoken language is a key problem arising in the development of Computational Agents as well as in the development of social network based opinion miners. Unfortunately,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Alexandre Garcia , Pierre Colombo , Slim Essid , Florence d'Alché-Buc , Chloé Clavel

Probabilistic topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been previously extended to the bilingual setting. A fundamental modeling assumption in several of these extensions is that the input corpora are in the form of document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini , Marianne Clausel

Topic models have evolved from conventional Bayesian probabilistic models to recent Neural Topic Models (NTMs). Although NTMs have shown promising performance when trained and tested on a specific corpus, their generalisation ability across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Lan Du

A broad bibliographical study suggests a scarcity of quantitative models of simulation integrating both network and urban growth. This absence may be due to diverging interests of concerned disciplines, resulting in a lack of communication.…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Juste Raimbault

Neural topic models can successfully find coherent and diverse topics in textual data. However, they are limited in dealing with multimodal datasets (e.g., images and text). This paper presents the first systematic and comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Felipe González-Pizarro , Giuseppe Carenini

Topic modeling seeks to uncover latent semantic structure in text, with LDA providing a foundational probabilistic framework. While recent methods often incorporate external knowledge (e.g., pre-trained embeddings), such reliance limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tal Ishon , Yoav Goldberg , Uri Shaham

Experimental methods for estimating the impacts of text on human evaluation have been widely used in the social sciences. However, researchers in experimental settings are usually limited to testing a small number of pre-specified text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Megan Ayers , Luke Sanford , Margaret Roberts , Eddie Yang

Topic models are a popular tool for clustering and analyzing textual data. They allow texts to be classified on the basis of their affiliation to the previously calculated topics. Despite their widespread use in research and application, an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Johannes Hirth , Tom Hanika

Importance of document clustering is now widely acknowledged by researchers for better management, smart navigation, efficient filtering, and concise summarization of large collection of documents like World Wide Web (WWW). The next…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Muhammad Rafi , M. Shahid Shaikh , Amir Farooq

As one of the prevalent topic mining tools, neural topic modeling has attracted a lot of interests for the advantages of high efficiency in training and strong generalisation abilities. However, due to the lack of context in each short…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jiachun Feng , Zusheng Zhang , Cheng Ding , Yanghui Rao , Haoran Xie