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Improvements in aviation safety analysis call for innovative techniques to extract valuable insights from the abundance of textual data available in accident reports. This paper explores the application of four prominent topic modelling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Aziida Nanyonga , Hassan Wasswa , Ugur Turhan , Keith Joiner , Graham Wild

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

A conversational system needs to know how to switch between topics to continue the conversation for a more extended period. For this topic detection from dialogue corpus has become an important task for a conversation and accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Haider Khalid , Vincent Wade

Topic modeling based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has been a framework of choice to deal with multimodal data, such as in image annotation tasks. Another popular approach to model the multimodal data is through deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Yin Zheng , Yu-Jin Zhang , Hugo Larochelle

Aviation safety is paramount in the modern world, with a continuous commitment to reducing accidents and improving safety standards. Central to this endeavor is the analysis of aviation accident reports, rich textual resources that hold…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Aziida Nanyonga , Hassan Wasswa , Graham Wild

In this paper we study the frequentist convergence rate for the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Blei et al., 2003) topic models. We show that the maximum likelihood estimator converges to one of the finitely many equivalent parameters in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-21 Yining Wang

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for uncovering thematic structures from large text corpora. However, most topic modeling approaches e.g. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) struggle to capture nuanced semantics and contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Satya Kapoor , Alex Gil , Sreyoshi Bhaduri , Anshul Mittal , Rutu Mulkar

Software repositories contain large amounts of textual data, ranging from source code comments and issue descriptions to questions, answers, and comments on Stack Overflow. To make sense of this textual data, topic modelling is frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

As one of the simplest probabilistic topic modeling techniques, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has found many important applications in text mining, computer vision and computational biology. Recent training algorithms for LDA can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-11 Jia Zeng , Zhi-Qiang Liu , Xiao-Qin Cao

In this article we propose and validate an unsupervised probabilistic model, Gaussian Latent Dirichlet Allocation (GLDA), for the problem of discrete state discovery from repeated, multivariate psychophysiological samples collected from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Congyu Wu , Aaron Fisher , David Schnyer

In this paper, we propose a method for resume rating using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and entity detection with SpaCy. The proposed method first extracts relevant entities such as education, experience, and skills from the resume…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Vidhita Jagwani , Smit Meghani , Krishna Pai , Sudhir Dhage

The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, we present Indexing by Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDI), an automatic document indexing method. The probability distributions in LDI utilize those in Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Yanshan Wang , Jae-Sung Lee , In-Chan Choi

In this paper, we present the Polylingual Labeled Topic Model, a model which combines the characteristics of the existing Polylingual Topic Model and Labeled LDA. The model accounts for multiple languages with separate topic distributions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Lisa Posch , Arnim Bleier , Philipp Schaer , Markus Strohmaier

One of the core problems in statistical models is the estimation of a posterior distribution. For topic models, the problem of posterior inference for individual texts is particularly important, especially when dealing with data streams,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-18 Khoat Than , Tung Doan

We propose a general method to carry out a valid Bayesian analysis of a finite-dimensional `targeted' parameter in the presence of a finite-dimensional nuisance parameter. We apply our methods to causal inference based on estimating…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-03 Magid Sabbagh , David A. Stephens

We introduce a non-parametric hierarchical Bayesian approach for open-ended 3D object categorization, named the Local Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (Local-HDP). This method allows an agent to learn independent topics for each category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 H. Ayoobi , H. Kasaei , M. Cao , R. Verbrugge , B. Verheij

We propose an approach for helping agents compose email replies to customer requests. To enable that, we use LDA to extract latent topics from a collection of email exchanges. We then use these latent topics to label our data, obtaining a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-08 Spandana Gella , Marc Dymetman , Jean Michel Renders , Sriram Venkatapathy

We present a hybrid algorithm for Bayesian topic models that combines the efficiency of sparse Gibbs sampling with the scalability of online stochastic inference. We used our algorithm to analyze a corpus of 1.2 million books (33 billion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 David Mimno , Matt Hoffman , David Blei

Measuring the impact of scientific articles is important for evaluating the research output of individual scientists, academic institutions and journals. While citations are raw data for constructing impact measures, there exist biases and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-24 Linda S. L. Tan , Aik Hui Chan , Tian Zheng

We propose a new model selection method, the posterior averaging information criterion, for Bayesian model assessment from a predictive perspective. The theoretical foundation is built on the Kullback-Leibler divergence to quantify the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-22 Shouhao Zhou