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We propose a novel generative model to explore both local and global context for joint learning topics and topic-specific word embeddings. In particular, we assume that global latent topics are shared across documents, a word is generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Lixing Zhu , Yulan He , Deyu Zhou

Word feature vectors have been proven to improve many NLP tasks. With recent advances in unsupervised learning of these feature vectors, it became possible to train it with much more data, which also resulted in better quality of learned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Marius Sajgalik , Michal Barla , Maria Bielikova

When people explore and manage information, they think in terms of topics and themes. However, the software that supports information exploration sees text at only the surface level. In this paper we show how topic modeling -- a technique…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-11-07 Jacob Eisenstein , Duen Horng "Polo" Chau , Aniket Kittur , Eric P. Xing

Topic models are a class of unsupervised learning algorithms for detecting the semantic structure within a text corpus. Together with a subsequent dimensionality reduction algorithm, topic models can be used for deriving spatializations for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Daniel Atzberger , Tim Cech , Willy Scheibel , Matthias Trapp , Rico Richter , Jürgen Döllner , Tobias Schreck

Paragraph Vectors has been recently proposed as an unsupervised method for learning distributed representations for pieces of texts. In their work, the authors showed that the method can learn an embedding of movie review texts which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Andrew M. Dai , Christopher Olah , Quoc V. Le

Recent advances in neural word embedding provide significant benefit to various information retrieval tasks. However as shown by recent studies, adapting the embedding models for the needs of IR tasks can bring considerable further…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Navid Rekabsaz , Bhaskar Mitra , Mihai Lupu , Allan Hanbury

Semantic word embeddings represent the meaning of a word via a vector, and are created by diverse methods. Many use nonlinear operations on co-occurrence statistics, and have hand-tuned hyperparameters and reweighting methods. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Sanjeev Arora , Yuanzhi Li , Yingyu Liang , Tengyu Ma , Andrej Risteski

Geospatial analysis lacks methods like the word vector representations and pre-trained networks that significantly boost performance across a wide range of natural language and computer vision tasks. To fill this gap, we introduce Tile2Vec,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Neal Jean , Sherrie Wang , Anshul Samar , George Azzari , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) can produce long, coherent passages of text, suggesting that LLMs, although trained on next-word prediction, must represent the latent structure that characterizes a document. Prior work has found that internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Liyi Zhang , R. Thomas McCoy , Theodore R. Sumers , Jian-Qiao Zhu , Thomas L. Griffiths

Representing words by vectors, or embeddings, enables computational reasoning and is foundational to automating natural language tasks. For example, if word embeddings of similar words contain similar values, word similarity can be readily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Carl Allen

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 models are probabilistic models for discovering topical themes in collections of documents. In real world applications, these models provide us with the means of organizing what would otherwise be unstructured collections. They can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Wesam Elshamy

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

Complementary to finding good general word embeddings, an important question for representation learning is to find dynamic word embeddings, e.g., across time or domain. Current methods do not offer a way to use or predict information on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Stephanie Brandl , David Lassner , Anne Baillot , Shinichi Nakajima

In this paper, we consider the task of retrieving documents with predefined topics from an unlabeled document dataset using an unsupervised approach. The proposed unsupervised approach requires only a small number of keywords describing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Tim Schopf , Daniel Braun , Florian Matthes

Word2vec (Mikolov et al., 2013) has proven to be successful in natural language processing by capturing the semantic relationships between different words. Built on top of single-word embeddings, paragraph vectors (Le and Mikolov, 2014)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Geng Ji , Robert Bamler , Erik B. Sudderth , Stephan Mandt

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

In this paper we present a model for unsupervised topic discovery in texts corpora. The proposed model uses documents, words, and topics lookup table embedding as neural network model parameters to build probabilities of words given topics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sileye 0. Ba