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Aviation safety is paramount in the modern world, with a continuous commitment to reducing accidents and improving safety standards. Central to this endeavor is the analysis of aviation accident reports, rich textual resources that hold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Aziida Nanyonga , Hassan Wasswa , Graham Wild

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a prominent generative probabilistic model used for uncovering abstract topics within document collections. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of augmenting topic models with Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mengze Hong , Chen Jason Zhang , Di Jiang

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

Content-based video retrieval is one of the most challenging tasks in surveillance systems. In this study, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model is used to annotate surveillance videos in an unsupervised manner. In scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mohammad Kianpisheh

Improvements in aviation safety analysis call for innovative techniques to extract valuable insights from the abundance of textual data available in accident reports. This paper explores the application of four prominent topic modelling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Aziida Nanyonga , Hassan Wasswa , Ugur Turhan , Keith Joiner , Graham Wild

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

Background: Unstructured and textual data is increasing rapidly and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling is a popular data analysis methods for it. Past work suggests that instability of LDA topics may lead to systematic errors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-04 Mika Mäntylä , Maëlick Claes , Umar Farooq

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

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

We describe the use of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithms to perform topic mining and labelling applied to retail customer communications in attempt to characterize the subject of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Rashid Mehdiyev , Jean Nava , Karan Sodhi , Saurav Acharya , Annie Ibrahim Rana

Linguistics has been instrumental in developing a deeper understanding of human nature. Words are indispensable to bequeath the thoughts, emotions, and purpose of any human interaction, and critically analyzing these words can elucidate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Tushar Sarkar , Nishant Rajadhyaksha

A U.S. Senator from South Dakota donated documents that were accumulated during his service as a house representative and senator to be housed at the Bridges library at South Dakota State University. This project investigated the utility of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Damon Bayer , Semhar Michael

With massive texts on social media, users and analysts often rely on topic modeling techniques to quickly extract key themes and gain insights. Traditional topic modeling techniques, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), provide…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Fei Ye , Jiapan Liu , Yinan Jing , Zhenying He , Weirao Wang , X. Sean Wang

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

Using the 6,638 case descriptions of societal impact submitted for evaluation in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), we replicate the topic model (Latent Dirichlet Allocation or LDA) made in this context and compare the results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Tobias Hecking , Loet Leydesdorff

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

The short text has been the prevalent format for information of Internet in recent decades, especially with the development of online social media, whose millions of users generate a vast number of short messages everyday. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Yuan Zuo , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

The problem of topic modeling can be seen as a generalization of the clustering problem, in that it posits that observations are generated due to multiple latent factors (e.g., the words in each document are generated as a mixture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Animashree Anandkumar , Dean P. Foster , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , Yi-Kai Liu

Storytelling is a powerful form of communication and may provide insights into factors contributing to gaps in healthcare outcomes. To determine whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can identify potential underlying factors and avenues for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Maneesh Bilalpur , Megan Hamm , Young Ji Lee , Natasha Norman , Kathleen M. McTigue , Yanshan Wang

The WikiLeaks Afghanistan war logs contain nearly $77,000$ reports of incidents in the US-led Afghanistan war, covering the period from January 2004 to December 2009. The recent growth of data on complex social systems and the potential to…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-06 Thomas Rusch , Paul Hofmarcher , Reinhold Hatzinger , Kurt Hornik