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We propose a general framework for topic-specific summarization of large text corpora, and illustrate how it can be used for analysis in two quite different contexts: an OSHA database of fatality and catastrophe reports (to facilitate…

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Topic modeling seeks to uncover latent semantic structure in text corpora with minimal supervision. Neural approaches achieve strong performance but require extensive tuning and struggle with lifelong learning due to catastrophic forgetting…

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Large text corpora, such as Reddit posts, have become an increasingly prevalent site of qualitative inquiry. However, most large text corpora are intractable for qualitative researchers. Instead, teams rely on statistical subsampling to…

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A new geometrically-motivated algorithm for nonnegative matrix factorization is developed and applied to the discovery of latent "topics" for text and image "document" corpora. The algorithm is based on robustly finding and clustering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Weicong Ding , Mohammad H. Rohban , Prakash Ishwar , Venkatesh Saligrama

Text preprocessing is an essential step in text mining. Removing words that can negatively impact the quality of prediction algorithms or are not informative enough is a crucial storage-saving technique in text indexing and results in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Farah Alshanik , Amy Apon , Alexander Herzog , Ilya Safro , Justin Sybrandt

Production of news content is growing at an astonishing rate. To help manage and monitor the sheer amount of text, there is an increasing need to develop efficient methods that can provide insights into emerging content areas, and stratify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 M. Tarik Altuncu , Sophia N. Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona

Fake news detection is a challenging task aiming to reduce human time and effort to check the truthfulness of news. Automated approaches to combat fake news, however, are limited by the lack of labeled benchmark datasets, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Inna Vogel , Jeong-Eun Choi , Meghana Meghana

We propose a parsimonious topic model for text corpora. In related models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), all words are modeled topic-specifically, even though many words occur with similar frequencies across different topics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Hossein Soleimani , David J. Miller

Most topic models are constructed under the assumption that documents follow a multinomial distribution. The Poisson distribution is an alternative distribution to describe the probability of count data. For topic modelling, the Poisson…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Jocelyn Mazarura , Alta de Waal , Pieter de Villiers

Automatic classification of scientific articles based on common characteristics is an interesting problem with many applications in digital library and information retrieval systems. Properly organized articles can be useful for automatic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Shameem A Puthiya Parambath

Mining a set of meaningful topics organized into a hierarchy is intuitively appealing since topic correlations are ubiquitous in massive text corpora. To account for potential hierarchical topic structures, hierarchical topic models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Chao Zhang , Jiawei Han

This article presents a hybrid methodology for building a multilingual corpus designed to support the study of emerging concepts in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), illustrated here through the case of ``non-technological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Revekka Kyriakoglou , Anna Pappa

Recently, considerable research effort has been devoted to developing deep architectures for topic models to learn topic structures. Although several deep models have been proposed to learn better topic proportions of documents, how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-05 He Zhao , Lan Du , Wray Buntine , Mingyuan Zhou

Existing graph- and hypergraph-based algorithms for document summarization represent the sentences of a corpus as the nodes of a graph or a hypergraph in which the edges represent relationships of lexical similarities between sentences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Hadrien Van Lierde , Tommy W. S. Chow

With the ongoing growth in number of digital articles in a wider set of languages and the expanding use of different languages, we need annotation methods that enable browsing multi-lingual corpora. Multilingual probabilistic topic models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Carlos Badenes-Olmedo , Jose-Luis Redondo García , Oscar Corcho

As the emergence and the thriving development of social networks, a huge number of short texts are accumulated and need to be processed. Inferring latent topics of collected short texts is useful for understanding its hidden structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-04 Zhenghang Cui , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

Due to recent explosion of text data, researchers have been overwhelmed by ever-increasing volume of articles produced by different research communities. Various scholarly search websites, citation recommendation engines, and research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Yihuang Kang , Keng-Pei Lin , I-Ling Cheng

Parallel texts are a relatively rare language resource, however, they constitute a very useful research material with a wide range of applications. This study presents and analyses new methodologies we developed for obtaining such data from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Krzysztof Wołk , Emilia Rejmund , Krzysztof Marasek

We present LDAExplore, a tool to visualize topic distributions in a given document corpus that are generated using Topic Modeling methods. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is one of the basic methods that is predominantly used to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Kiante Brantley , Shimei Pan , Jian Chen

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…