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Pre-training decoder-only language models relies on vast amounts of high-quality data, yet the availability of such data is increasingly reaching its limits. While metadata is commonly used to create and curate these datasets, its potential…

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The performance of large language models (LLMs) is significantly affected by the quality and composition of their pre-training data, which is inherently diverse, spanning various languages, sources, and topics. Effectively integrating these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jiahui Peng , Xinlin Zhuang , Jiantao Qiu , Ren Ma , Jing Yu , He Zhu , Conghui He

Topic modeling has been a widely used tool for unsupervised text analysis. However, comprehensive evaluations of a topic model remain challenging. Existing evaluation methods are either less comparable across different models (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

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

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…

Meta-embedding (ME) learning is an emerging approach that attempts to learn more accurate word embeddings given existing (source) word embeddings as the sole input. Due to their ability to incorporate semantics from multiple source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Danushka Bollegala , James O'Neill

Mining textual patterns in news, tweets, papers, and many other kinds of text corpora has been an active theme in text mining and NLP research. Previous studies adopt a dependency parsing-based pattern discovery approach. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Meng Jiang , Jingbo Shang , Taylor Cassidy , Xiang Ren , Lance M. Kaplan , Timothy P. Hanratty , Jiawei Han

Word embeddings are widely used in Natural Language Processing, mainly due to their success in capturing semantic information from massive corpora. However, their creation process does not allow the different meanings of a word to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Massimiliano Mancini , Jose Camacho-Collados , Ignacio Iacobacci , Roberto Navigli

Recent work incorporates pre-trained word embeddings such as BERT embeddings into Neural Topic Models (NTMs), generating highly coherent topics. However, with high-quality contextualized document representations, do we really need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zihan Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

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

Topic modelling is a pivotal unsupervised machine learning technique for extracting valuable insights from large document collections. Existing neural topic modelling methods often encode contextual information of documents, while ignoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yanan Ma , Chenghao Xiao , Chenhan Yuan , Sabine N van der Veer , Lamiece Hassan , Chenghua Lin , Goran Nenadic

In scientific disciplines where research findings have a strong impact on society, reducing the amount of time it takes to understand, synthesize and exploit the research is invaluable. Topic modeling is an effective technique for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Jennifer Sleeman , Tim Finin , Milton Halem

Topic models provide a useful method for dimensionality reduction and exploratory data analysis in large text corpora. Most approaches to topic model inference have been based on a maximum likelihood objective. Efficient algorithms exist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-20 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Yoni Halpern , David Mimno , Ankur Moitra , David Sontag , Yichen Wu , Michael Zhu

Word embedding models such as the skip-gram learn vector representations of words' semantic relationships, and document embedding models learn similar representations for documents. On the other hand, topic models provide latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Kamrun Naher Keya , Yannis Papanikolaou , James R. Foulds

Making sense of words often requires to simultaneously examine the surrounding context of a term as well as the global themes characterizing the overall corpus. Several topic models have already exploited word embeddings to recognize local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Gabriele Pergola , Yulan He , David Lowe

Statistical topic models provide a general data-driven framework for automated discovery of high-level knowledge from large collections of text documents. While topic models can potentially discover a broad range of themes in a data set,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-08-08 Chaitanya Chemudugunta , Padhraic Smyth , Mark Steyvers

Recent reasoning methods (e.g., chain-of-thought, entailment reasoning) help users understand how language models (LMs) answer a single question, but they do little to reveal the LM's overall understanding, or "theory," about the question's…

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for revealing underlying thematic structures within textual data. However, existing models have certain limitations, particularly when dealing with short text datasets that lack co-occurring words.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Han Wang , Nirmalendu Prakash , Nguyen Khoi Hoang , Ming Shan Hee , Usman Naseem , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

The recent advancement of large language models has spurred a growing trend of integrating pre-trained language model (PLM) embeddings into topic models, fundamentally reshaping how topics capture semantic structure. Classical models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanlin Xiao , Mauricio A. Álvarez , Rainer Breitling

One of the challenges for text analysis in medical domains is analyzing large-scale medical documents. As a consequence, finding relevant documents has become more difficult. One of the popular methods to retrieve information based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Amir Karami , Aryya Gangopadhyay , Bin Zhou , Hadi Kharrazi