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As electronically stored data grow in daily life, obtaining novel and relevant information becomes challenging in text mining. Thus people have sought statistical methods based on term frequency, matrix algebra, or topic modeling for text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Clint P. George , Wei Xia , George Michailidis

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models trained without stopword removal often produce topics with high posterior probabilities on uninformative words, obscuring the underlying corpus content. Even when canonical stopwords are manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Angela Fan , Finale Doshi-Velez , Luke Miratrix

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

We introduce the author-topic model, a generative model for documents that extends Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA; Blei, Ng, & Jordan, 2003) to include authorship information. Each author is associated with a multinomial distribution over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Michal Rosen-Zvi , Thomas Griffiths , Mark Steyvers , Padhraic Smyth

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

An important aspect of text mining involves information retrieval in form of discovery of semantic themes (topics) from documents using topic modelling. While generative topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or Latent Semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Satyajeet Sahoo , Jhareswar Maiti

Originally designed to model text, topic modeling has become a powerful tool for uncovering latent structure in domains including medicine, finance, and vision. The goals for the model vary depending on the application: in some cases, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-24 Finale Doshi-Velez , Byron Wallace , Ryan Adams

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

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

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

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, a method for extracting the underlying themes from a collection of documents, is an increasingly important component of the design of intelligent systems enabling the sense-making of highly dynamic and diverse streams of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Chris Gropp , Alexander Herzog , Ilya Safro , Paul W. Wilson , Amy W. Apon

Supervised topic models can help clinical researchers find interpretable cooccurence patterns in count data that are relevant for diagnostics. However, standard formulations of supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation have two problems.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-07 Michael C. Hughes , Huseyin Melih Elibol , Thomas McCoy , Roy Perlis , Finale Doshi-Velez

Topic modelling is a popular unsupervised method for identifying the underlying themes in document collections that has many applications in information retrieval. A topic is usually represented by a list of terms ranked by their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Areej Alokaili , Nikolaos Aletras , Mark Stevenson

Though word embeddings and topics are complementary representations, several past works have only used pre-trained word embeddings in (neural) topic modeling to address data sparsity problem in short text or small collection of documents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Pankaj Gupta , Yatin Chaudhary , Hinrich Schütze

Topic modeling is admittedly a convenient way to monitor markets trend. Conventionally, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA, is considered a must-do model to gain this type of information. By given the merit of deducing keyword with token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ching-Hsun Tseng , Shin-Jye Lee , Po-Wei Cheng , Chien Lee , Chih-Chieh Hung

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 2012-08-14 Jia Zeng

Topic modelling, as a well-established unsupervised technique, has found extensive use in automatically detecting significant topics within a corpus of documents. However, classic topic modelling approaches (e.g., LDA) have certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yida Mu , Chun Dong , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

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

Word clouds became a standard tool for presenting results of natural language processing methods such as topic modelling. They exhibit most important words, where word size is often chosen proportional to the relevance of words within a…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-14 Peter Winker