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An initial procedure in text-as-data applications is text preprocessing. One of the typical steps, which can substantially facilitate computations, consists in removing infrequent words believed to provide limited information about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Victor Bystrov , Viktoriia Naboka-Krell , Anna Staszewska-Bystrova , Peter Winker

Probabilistic topic models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) are popularly used with Bayesian inference methods such as Gibbs sampling to learn posterior distributions over topic model parameters. We derive a novel measure of LDA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Linzi Xing , Michael J. Paul , Giuseppe Carenini

Topic modelling in Natural Language Processing uncovers hidden topics in large, unlabelled text datasets. It is widely applied in fields such as information retrieval, content summarisation, and trend analysis across various disciplines.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Saranzaya Magsarjav , Melissa Humphries , Jonathan Tuke , Lewis Mitchell

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

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

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

Nowadays, data analysis has become a problem as the amount of data is constantly increasing. In order to overcome this problem in textual data, many models and methods are used in natural language processing. The topic modeling field is one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zekeriya Anil Guven , Banu Diri , Tolgahan Cakaloglu

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

In latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), topics are multinomial distributions over the entire vocabulary. However, the vocabulary usually contains many words that are not relevant in forming the topics. We adopt a variable selection method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Dongwoo Kim , Yeonseung Chung , Alice Oh

Standard LDA model suffers the problem that the topic assignment of each word is independent and word correlation hence is neglected. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a model called Word Related Latent Dirichlet Allocation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xun Wang

For organizing large text corpora topic modeling provides useful tools. A widely used method is Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a generative probabilistic model which models single texts in a collection of texts as mixtures of latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jonas Rieger , Lars Koppers , Carsten Jentsch , Jörg Rahnenführer

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

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 modeling seeks to uncover latent semantic structure in text, with LDA providing a foundational probabilistic framework. While recent methods often incorporate external knowledge (e.g., pre-trained embeddings), such reliance limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tal Ishon , Yoav Goldberg , Uri Shaham

Much of human knowledge sits in large databases of unstructured text. Leveraging this knowledge requires algorithms that extract and record metadata on unstructured text documents. Assigning topics to documents will enable intelligent…

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

Topics models, such as LDA, are widely used in Natural Language Processing. Making their output interpretable is an important area of research with applications to areas such as the enhancement of exploratory search interfaces and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Areej Alokaili , Nikolaos Aletras , Mark Stevenson

By illuminating latent structures in a corpus of text, topic models are an essential tool for categorizing, summarizing, and exploring large collections of documents. Probabilistic topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bahareh Harandizadeh , J. Hunter Priniski , Fred Morstatter

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

In this work, automatic analysis of themes contained in a large corpora of judgments from public procurement domain is performed. The employed technique is unsupervised latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). In addition, it is proposed, to use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Michał Łopuszyński
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