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Topic models are used to identify and group similar themes in a set of documents. Recent advancements in deep learning based neural topic models has received significant research interest. In this paper, an approach is proposed that further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Trishia Khandelwal

Modeling topics effectively in short texts, such as tweets and news snippets, is crucial to capturing rapidly evolving social trends. Existing topic models often struggle to accurately capture the underlying semantic patterns of short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuyu Chang , Rui Wang , Peng Ren , Qi Wang , Haiping Huang

Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity. In this work, we propose a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Raymond Li , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Chuyuan Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

Topic modeling analyzes documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. However, existing topic models fail to learn interpretable topics when working with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. To this end, we develop the Embedded Topic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei

We address two challenges of probabilistic topic modelling in order to better estimate the probability of a word in a given context, i.e., P(word|context): (1) No Language Structure in Context: Probabilistic topic models ignore word order…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pankaj Gupta , Yatin Chaudhary , Florian Buettner , Hinrich Schütze

The use of large pretrained neural networks to create contextualized word embeddings has drastically improved performance on several natural language processing (NLP) tasks. These computationally expensive models have begun to be applied to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Benjamin Clavié , Kobi Gal

One of the long-standing challenges in lexical semantics consists in learning representations of words which reflect their semantic properties. The remarkable success of word embeddings for this purpose suggests that high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yixiao Wang , Zied Bouraoui , Luis Espinosa Anke , Steven Schockaert

Topic modelling, as a well-established unsupervised technique, has found extensive use in automatically detecting significant topics within a corpus of documents. However, classic topic modelling approaches (e.g., LDA) have certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yida Mu , Chun Dong , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

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

Marrying topic models and language models exposes language understanding to a broader source of document-level context beyond sentences via topics. While introducing topical semantics in language models, existing approaches incorporate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yatin Chaudhary , Hinrich Schütze , Pankaj Gupta

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

Probabilistic topic models are generative models that describe the content of documents by discovering the latent topics underlying them. However, the structure of the textual input, and for instance the grouping of words in coherent text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini , Marianne Clausel

Word clouds became a standard tool for presenting results of natural language processing methods such as topic modelling. They exhibit most important words, where word size is often chosen proportional to the relevance of words within a…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-14 Peter Winker

In this paper, we propose Latent Relation Language Models (LRLMs), a class of language models that parameterizes the joint distribution over the words in a document and the entities that occur therein via knowledge graph relations. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Hiroaki Hayashi , Zecong Hu , Chenyan Xiong , Graham Neubig

Although fully generative models have been successfully used to model the contents of text documents, they are often awkward to apply to combinations of text data and document metadata. In this paper we propose a Dirichlet-multinomial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-18 David Mimno , Andrew McCallum

A common use of NLP is to facilitate the understanding of large document collections, with a shift from using traditional topic models to Large Language Models. Yet the effectiveness of using LLM for large corpus understanding in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zongxia Li , Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé , Alexander Hoyle , Paiheng Xu , Alden Dima , Juan Francisco Fung , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Topic modeling is a branch of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims to organize large collections of texts into coherent groups according to word co-occurrence patterns, with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) remaining one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alex Ding , Tarun Rapaka , Willy Rodriguez , Jason Yang

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

Topic modeling is a fundamental task in natural language processing, allowing the discovery of latent thematic structures in text corpora. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in topic discovery, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Weijie Xu , Yuanyuan Qi , Jueqing Lu , Dinh Phung , Lan Du

Topic models are frequently used in machine learning owing to their high interpretability and modular structure. However, extending a topic model to include a supervisory signal, to incorporate pre-trained word embedding vectors and to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Ryohei Hisano