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We present a novel method for hierarchical topic detection where topics are obtained by clustering documents in multiple ways. Specifically, we model document collections using a class of graphical models called hierarchical latent tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Peixian Chen , Nevin L. Zhang , Tengfei Liu , Leonard K. M. Poon , Zhourong Chen , Farhan Khawar

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for hidden semantic discovery of text data and serves as a fundamental tool for text analysis in various applications. However, the LDA model as well as the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Fangyuan Zhao , Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Qing Han , Peng Zhao , Xinyu Yang

In real world industrial applications of topic modeling, the ability to capture gigantic conceptual space by learning an ultra-high dimensional topical representation, i.e., the so-called "big model", is becoming the next desideratum after…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xun Zheng , Jin Kyu Kim , Qirong Ho , Eric P. Xing

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

In this paper, we present hierarchical relationbased latent Dirichlet allocation (hrLDA), a data-driven hierarchical topic model for extracting terminological ontologies from a large number of heterogeneous documents. In contrast to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Xiaofeng Zhu , Diego Klabjan , Patrick Bless

In the last decade, a variety of topic models have been proposed for text engineering. However, except Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), most of existing topic models are seldom applied or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Di Jiang , Yuanfeng Song , Rongzhong Lian , Siqi Bao , Jinhua Peng , Huang He , Hua Wu

Crowdfunding in the realm of the Social Web has received substantial attention, with prior research examining various aspects of campaigns, including project objectives, durations, and influential project categories for successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Prathamesh Muzumdar , George Kurian , Ganga Prasad Basyal

This article analyses and evaluates FDD\b{eta}, a supervised term-weighting scheme that can be applied for query-term selection in topic-based retrieval. FDD\b{eta} weights terms based on two factors representing the descriptive and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mariano Maisonnave , Fernando Delbianco , Fernando Tohmé , Ana Maguitman

To solve the big topic modeling problem, we need to reduce both time and space complexities of batch latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) algorithms. Although parallel LDA algorithms on the multi-processor architecture have low time and space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Jian-Feng Yan , Jia Zeng , Zhi-Qiang Liu , Yang Gao

The growing use of unstructured text in business research makes topic modeling a central tool for constructing explanatory variables from reviews, social media, and open-ended survey responses, yet existing approaches function poorly as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Stephan Ludwig , Peter J. Danaher , Xiaohao Yang

Inferring topics from the overwhelming amount of short texts becomes a critical but challenging task for many content analysis tasks, such as content charactering, user interest profiling, and emerging topic detecting. Existing methods such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jipeng Qiang , Ping Chen , Tong Wang , Xindong Wu

In this paper we present a model for unsupervised topic discovery in texts corpora. The proposed model uses documents, words, and topics lookup table embedding as neural network model parameters to build probabilities of words given topics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sileye 0. Ba

Topic models are probabilistic models for discovering topical themes in collections of documents. In real world applications, these models provide us with the means of organizing what would otherwise be unstructured collections. They can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Wesam Elshamy

We present a method for systematically evaluating the correctness and robustness of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) for code generation via a new benchmark, Turbulence. Turbulence consists of a large set of natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shahin Honarvar , Mark van der Wilk , Alastair Donaldson

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

Advancement in Large Language Models (LLMs) reasoning capabilities enables them to solve scientific problems with enhanced efficacy. Thereby, a high-quality benchmark for comprehensive and appropriate assessment holds significance, while…

Missing values are pervasive in real-world tabular data and can significantly impair downstream analysis. Imputing them is especially challenging in text-rich tables, where dependencies are implicit, complex, and dispersed across long…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Soroush Omidvartehrani , Davood Rafiei

Discontinuities and delayed terms are encountered in the governing equations of a large class of problems ranging from physics and engineering to medicine and economics. These systems cannot be properly modelled and simulated with standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Thibault Monsel , Onofrio Semeraro , Lionel Mathelin , Guillaume Charpiat

Hierarchical latent tree analysis (HLTA) is recently proposed as a new method for topic detection. It differs fundamentally from the LDA-based methods in terms of topic definition, topic-document relationship, and learning method. It has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Peixian Chen , Nevin L. Zhang , Leonard K. M. Poon , Zhourong Chen

We propose a technique for performing deductive qualitative data analysis at scale on text-based data. Using a natural language processing technique known as text embeddings, we create vector-based representations of texts in a…