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Topics generated by topic models are typically represented as list of terms. To reduce the cognitive overhead of interpreting these topics for end-users, we propose labelling a topic with a succinct phrase that summarises its theme or idea.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Shraey Bhatia , Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin

Topic models provide a useful text-mining tool for learning, extracting, and discovering latent structures in large text corpora. Although a plethora of methods have been proposed for topic modeling, lacking in the literature is a formal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-12 Yinyin Chen , Shishuang He , Yun Yang , Feng Liang

An important aspect of text mining involves information retrieval in form of discovery of semantic themes (topics) from documents using topic modelling. While generative topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or Latent Semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Satyajeet Sahoo , Jhareswar Maiti

Topic models such as LDA, DocNADE, iDocNADEe have been popular in document analysis. However, the traditional topic models have several limitations including: (1) Bag-of-words (BoW) assumption, where they ignore word ordering, (2) Data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Yatin Chaudhary , Pankaj Gupta , Thomas Runkler

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

This work combines algorithms based on word embeddings, dimensionality reduction, and clustering. The objective is to obtain topics from a set of unclassified texts. The algorithm to obtain the word embeddings is the BERT model, a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Diego Saldaña Ulloa

Pre-trained language models have led to a new state-of-the-art in many NLP tasks. However, for topic modeling, statistical generative models such as LDA are still prevalent, which do not easily allow incorporating contextual word vectors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Johannes Schneider

The problem of topic modeling can be seen as a generalization of the clustering problem, in that it posits that observations are generated due to multiple latent factors (e.g., the words in each document are generated as a mixture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Animashree Anandkumar , Dean P. Foster , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , Yi-Kai Liu

Topic modeling is a powerful technique to discover hidden topics and patterns within a collection of documents without prior knowledge. Traditional topic modeling and clustering-based techniques encounter challenges in capturing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Melkamu Abay Mersha , Mesay Gemeda yigezu , Jugal Kalita

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

Supervised topic models can help clinical researchers find interpretable cooccurence patterns in count data that are relevant for diagnostics. However, standard formulations of supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation have two problems.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-07 Michael C. Hughes , Huseyin Melih Elibol , Thomas McCoy , Roy Perlis , Finale Doshi-Velez

We propose a neural network based approach for learning topics from text and image datasets. The model makes no assumptions about the conditional distribution of the observed features given the latent topics. This allows us to perform topic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is an important hierarchical Bayesian model for probabilistic topic modeling, which attracts worldwide interests and touches on many important applications in text mining, computer vision and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Jia Zeng

There is an escalating need for methods to identify latent patterns in text data from many domains. We introduce a new method to identify topics in a corpus and represent documents as topic sequences. Discourse Atom Topic Modeling draws on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Alina Arseniev-Koehler , Susan D. Cochran , Vickie M. Mays , Kai-Wei Chang , Jacob Gates Foster

Originally designed to model text, topic modeling has become a powerful tool for uncovering latent structure in domains including medicine, finance, and vision. The goals for the model vary depending on the application: in some cases, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-24 Finale Doshi-Velez , Byron Wallace , Ryan Adams

We consider probabilistic topic models and more recent word embedding techniques from a perspective of learning hidden semantic representations. Inspired by a striking similarity of the two approaches, we merge them and learn probabilistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Anna Potapenko , Artem Popov , Konstantin Vorontsov

Topic models analyze text from a set of documents. Documents are modeled as a mixture of topics, with topics defined as probability distributions on words. Inferences of interest include the most probable topics and characterization of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Jason Wang , Robert E. Weiss

Supervised topic models utilize document's side information for discovering predictive low dimensional representations of documents. Existing models apply the likelihood-based estimation. In this paper, we present a general framework of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-04-09 Jun Zhu , Amr Ahmed , Eric P. Xing

Topic modelling in Natural Language Processing uncovers hidden topics in large, unlabelled text datasets. It is widely applied in fields such as information retrieval, content summarisation, and trend analysis across various disciplines.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Saranzaya Magsarjav , Melissa Humphries , Jonathan Tuke , Lewis Mitchell

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