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Topic modeling is a state-of-the-art technique for analyzing text corpora. It uses a statistical model, most commonly Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to discover abstract topics that occur in the document collection. However, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Valerie Müller , Christian Sieg , Lars Linsen

Topic modeling is widely used for analytically evaluating large collections of textual data. One of the most popular topic techniques is Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which is flexible and adaptive, but not optimal for e.g. short texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Muriël de Groot , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Marcel R. Haas

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

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

We propose a new topic modeling procedure that takes advantage of the fact that the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) log likelihood function is asymptotically equivalent to the logarithm of the volume of the topic simplex. This allows…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-04 Byoungwook Jang , Alfred Hero

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for uncovering thematic structures from large text corpora. However, most topic modeling approaches e.g. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) struggle to capture nuanced semantics and contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Satya Kapoor , Alex Gil , Sreyoshi Bhaduri , Anshul Mittal , Rutu Mulkar

Weak topic correlation across document collections with different numbers of topics in individual collections presents challenges for existing cross-collection topic models. This paper introduces two probabilistic topic models, Correlated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Jingwei Zhang , Aaron Gerow , Jaan Altosaar , James Evans , Richard Jean So

This paper proposes a new methodology to study sequential corpora by implementing a two-stage algorithm that learns time-based topics with respect to a scale of document positions and introduces the concept of Topic Scaling which ranks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Sami Diaf , Ulrich Fritsche

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 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

Understanding the shopping motivations behind market baskets has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Analyzing shopping transactions demands techniques that can cope with the volume and dimensionality of grocery…

Topic models, and more specifically the class of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), are widely used for probabilistic modeling of text. MCMC sampling from the posterior distribution is typically performed using a collapsed Gibbs sampler. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-16 Måns Magnusson , Leif Jonsson , Mattias Villani , David Broman

A text mining approach is proposed based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to analyze the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) consumer complaints. The proposed approach aims to extract latent topics in the CFPB complaint…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Kaveh Bastani , Hamed Namavari , Jeffry Shaffer

The increasing volume of short texts generated on social media sites, such as Twitter or Facebook, creates a great demand for effective and efficient topic modeling approaches. While latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) can be applied, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Jeon-Hyung Kang , Jun Ma , Yan Liu

Topic modeling is a key method in text analysis, but existing approaches fail to efficiently scale to large datasets or are limited by assuming one topic per document. Overcoming these limitations, we introduce Semantic Component Analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Florian Eichin , Carolin M. Schuster , Georg Groh , Michael A. Hedderich

The rapid expansion of biomedical publications creates challenges for organizing knowledge and detecting emerging trends, underscoring the need for scalable and interpretable methods. Common clustering and topic modeling approaches such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Lana E. Yeganova , Won G. Kim , Shubo Tian , Natalie Xie , Donald C. Comeau , W. John Wilbur , Zhiyong Lu

When building large-scale machine learning (ML) programs, such as big topic models or deep neural nets, one usually assumes such tasks can only be attempted with industrial-sized clusters with thousands of nodes, which are out of reach for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-05 Jinhui Yuan , Fei Gao , Qirong Ho , Wei Dai , Jinliang Wei , Xun Zheng , Eric P. Xing , Tie-Yan Liu , Wei-Ying Ma

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

Topic models are a useful analysis tool to uncover the underlying themes within document collections. The dominant approach is to use probabilistic topic models that posit a generative story, but in this paper we propose an alternative way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Suzanna Sia , Ayush Dalmia , Sabrina J. Mielke

Topic modeling based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has been a framework of choice to deal with multimodal data, such as in image annotation tasks. Another popular approach to model the multimodal data is through deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Yin Zheng , Yu-Jin Zhang , Hugo Larochelle