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Probabilistic topic models are widely used to discover latent topics in document collections, while latent feature vector representations of words have been used to obtain high performance in many NLP tasks. In this paper, we extend two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Richard Billingsley , Lan Du , Mark Johnson

Probabilistic topic models are generative models that describe the content of documents by discovering the latent topics underlying them. However, the structure of the textual input, and for instance the grouping of words in coherent text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini , Marianne Clausel

Topic models are one of the compelling methods for discovering latent semantics in a document collection. However, it assumes that a document has sufficient co-occurrence information to be effective. However, in short texts, co-occurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pritom Saha Akash , Jie Huang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Topic modeling is a well-established technique for exploring text corpora. Conventional topic models (e.g., LDA) represent topics as bags of words that often require "reading the tea leaves" to interpret; additionally, they offer users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chau Minh Pham , Alexander Hoyle , Simeng Sun , Philip Resnik , Mohit Iyyer

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

Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity. In this work, we propose a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Raymond Li , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Chuyuan Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

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

We present a novel summarization framework for reviews of products and services by selecting informative and concise text segments from the reviews. Our method consists of two major steps. First, we identify five frequently occurring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Trung V. Nguyen , Alice H. Oh

High-quality dialogue-summary paired data is expensive to produce and domain-sensitive, making abstractive dialogue summarization a challenging task. In this work, we propose the first unsupervised abstractive dialogue summarization model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Xinyuan Zhang , Ruiyi Zhang , Manzil Zaheer , Amr Ahmed

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

Discovering the semantics of multimodal utterances is essential for understanding human language and enhancing human-machine interactions. Existing methods manifest limitations in leveraging nonverbal information for discerning complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Hanlei Zhang , Hua Xu , Fei Long , Xin Wang , Kai Gao

Due to the lack of publicly available resources, conversation summarization has received far less attention than text summarization. As the purpose of conversations is to exchange information between at least two interlocutors, key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Zhengyuan Liu , Angela Ng , Sheldon Lee , Ai Ti Aw , Nancy F. Chen

Long document summarization poses a significant challenge in natural language processing due to input lengths that exceed the capacity of most state-of-the-art pre-trained language models. This study proposes a hierarchical framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuan-Jhe Yin , Bo-Yu Chen , Berlin Chen

Dialogue topic segmentation is critical in several dialogue modeling problems. However, popular unsupervised approaches only exploit surface features in assessing topical coherence among utterances. In this work, we address this limitation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Linzi Xing , Giuseppe Carenini

We introduce a novel graph-based framework for abstractive meeting speech summarization that is fully unsupervised and does not rely on any annotations. Our work combines the strengths of multiple recent approaches while addressing their…

Large language models (LLMs) excel in abstractive summarization tasks, delivering fluent and pertinent summaries. Recent advancements have extended their capabilities to handle long-input contexts, exceeding 100k tokens. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Mathieu Ravaut , Aixin Sun , Nancy F. Chen , Shafiq Joty

Automatic summarization techniques on meeting conversations developed so far have been primarily extractive, resulting in poor summaries. To improve this, we propose an approach to generate abstractive summaries by fusing important content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-25 Siddhartha Banerjee , Prasenjit Mitra , Kazunari Sugiyama

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

We introduce an unsupervised discriminative model for the task of retrieving experts in online document collections. We exclusively employ textual evidence and avoid explicit feature engineering by learning distributed word representations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Christophe Van Gysel , Maarten de Rijke , Marcel Worring

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