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Network-based procedures for topic detection in huge text collections offer an intuitive alternative to probabilistic topic models. We present in detail a method that is especially designed with the requirements of domain experts in mind.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Andreas Hamm , Simon Odrowski

Topic classification systems on spoken documents usually consist of two modules: an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module to convert speech into text and a text topic classification (TTC) module to predict the topic class from the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Tan Liu , Wu Guo , Bin Gu

The ever more accurate search for deep analysis in customer data is a really strong technological trend nowadays, quite appealing to both private and public companies. This is particularly true in the contact center domain, where speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Andrea Brunello , Enrico Marzano , Angelo Montanari , Guido Sciavicco

On social media platforms like Twitter, users regularly share their opinions and comments with software vendors and service providers. Popular software products might get thousands of user comments per day. Research has shown that such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Christoph Stanik , Tim Pietz , Walid Maalej

Topic drift is a common phenomenon in multi-turn dialogue. Therefore, an ideal dialogue generation models should be able to capture the topic information of each context, detect the relevant context, and produce appropriate responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Hainan Zhang , Yanyan Lan , Liang Pang , Hongshen Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin

In the retrieval-based multi-turn dialogue modeling, it remains a challenge to select the most appropriate response according to extracting salient features in context utterances. As a conversation goes on, topic shift at discourse-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Yi Xu , Hai Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang

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

Existing topic modeling and text segmentation methodologies generally require large datasets for training, limiting their capabilities when only small collections of text are available. In this work, we reexamine the inter-related problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qiong Wu , Adam Hare , Sirui Wang , Yuwei Tu , Zhenming Liu , Christopher G. Brinton , Yanhua Li

This study applies BERTopic, a transformer-based topic modeling technique, to the lmsys-chat-1m dataset, a multilingual conversational corpus built from head-to-head evaluations of large language models (LLMs). Each user prompt is paired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Abhay Bhandarkar , Gaurav Mishra , Khushi Juchani , Harsh Singhal

A lot of manual work goes into identifying a topic for an article. With a large volume of articles, the manual process can be exhausting. Our approach aims to address this issue by automatically extracting topics from the text of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Linkai Zhu , Maoyi Huang , Maomao Chen , Wennan Wang

Topic Modeling is a popular statistical tool commonly used on textual data to identify the hidden thematic structure in a document collection based on the distribution of words. Additionally, it can be used to cluster the documents, with…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-24 Namitha V. Pais , Scott H. Holan , Paul A. Parker

Evaluating open-domain dialogue systems is difficult due to the diversity of possible correct answers. Automatic metrics such as BLEU correlate weakly with human annotations, resulting in a significant bias across different models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Nouha Dziri , Ehsan Kamalloo , Kory W. Mathewson , Osmar Zaiane

In this paper we introduce the problem of determining the topic that a set of images is describing, where every topic is represented as a set of words. Different from other problems like tag assignment or similar, a) we assume multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Gonzalo Vaca-Castano

This paper addresses the problem of single-channel speech separation, where the number of speakers is unknown, and each speaker may speak multiple utterances. We propose a speech separation model that simultaneously performs separation,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Requirements elicitation has recently been complemented with crowd-based techniques, which continuously involve large, heterogeneous groups of users who express their feedback through a variety of media. Crowd-based elicitation has great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kim Julian Gülle , Nicholas Ford , Patrick Ebel , Florian Brokhausen , Andreas Vogelsang

Qualitative research is an approach to understanding social phenomenon based around human interpretation of data, particularly text. Probabilistic topic modelling is a machine learning approach that is also based around the analysis of text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Marco Gillies , Dhiraj Murthy , Harry Brenton , Rapheal Olaniyan

With the widespread use of social networks, detecting the topics discussed on these platforms has become a significant challenge. Current approaches primarily rely on frequent pattern mining or semantic relations, often neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mehrdad Ranjbar Khadivi , Shahin Akbarpour , Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Babak Anari

Mental illness is one of the most pressing public health issues of our time. While counseling and psychotherapy can be effective treatments, our knowledge about how to conduct successful counseling conversations has been limited due to lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Tim Althoff , Kevin Clark , Jure Leskovec

The goal of dialogue topic shift detection is to identify whether the current topic in a conversation has changed or needs to change. Previous work focused on detecting topic shifts using pre-trained models to encode the utterance, failing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jiangyi Lin , Yaxin Fan , Xiaomin Chu , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu

This study explores the use of Large language models to analyze therapist remarks in a psychotherapeutic setting. The paper focuses on the application of BERTopic, a machine learning-based topic modeling tool, to the dialogue of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Alexander Vanin , Vadim Bolshev , Anastasia Panfilova