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The present study proposes a novel method of trend detection and visualization - more specifically, modeling the change in a topic over time. Where current models used for the identification and visualization of trends only convey the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Angad Sandhu , Aneesh Edara , Vishesh Narayan , Faizan Wajid , Ashok Agrawala

Topics models, such as LDA, are widely used in Natural Language Processing. Making their output interpretable is an important area of research with applications to areas such as the enhancement of exploratory search interfaces and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Areej Alokaili , Nikolaos Aletras , Mark Stevenson

Over the years, topic models have provided an efficient way of extracting insights from text. However, while many models have been proposed, none are able to model topic temporality and hierarchy jointly. Modelling time provide more precise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Judicael Poumay , Ashwin Ittoo

This study introduces Bidirectional Topic Matching (BTM), a novel method for cross-corpus topic modeling that quantifies thematic overlap and divergence between corpora. BTM is a flexible framework that can incorporate various topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Raven Adam , Marie Lisa Kogler

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

In this paper we describe a novel framework for the discovery of the topical content of a data corpus, and the tracking of its complex structural changes across the temporal dimension. In contrast to previous work our model does not impose…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Adham Beykikhoshk , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

In this paper, a method for measuring synchronic corpus (dis-)similarity put forward by Kilgarriff (2001) is adapted and extended to identify trends and correlated changes in diachronic text data, using the Corpus of Historical American…

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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 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

Recent extensively competitive business environment makes companies to keep their eyes on social media, as there is a growing recognition over customer languages (e.g., needs, interests, and complaints) as source of future opportunities.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Byeongki Jeong , Janghyeok Yoon , Jaewoong Choi

In the last few years, open-domain question answering (ODQA) has advanced rapidly due to the development of deep learning techniques and the availability of large-scale QA datasets. However, the current datasets are essentially designed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Jiexin Wang , Adam Jatowt , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

This paper studies the differences between different types of newspapers in expressing temporal information, which is a topic that has not received much attention. Techniques from the fields of temporal processing and pattern mining are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Yingxue Fu , Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

This study presents a framework for automated evaluation of dynamically evolving topic taxonomies in scientific literature using Large Language Models (LLMs). In digital library systems, topic modeling plays a crucial role in efficiently…

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The explosive growth of textual data over time presents a significant challenge in uncovering evolving themes and trends. Existing dynamic topic modeling techniques, while powerful, often exist in fragmented pipelines that lack robust…

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Topic models are widely used in natural language processing, allowing researchers to estimate the underlying themes in a collection of documents. Most topic models use unsupervised methods and hence require the additional step of attaching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Alexander Herzog , Peter John , Slava Jankin Mikhaylov

Probabilistic topic models are widely used to discover latent topics in document collections, while latent feature vector representations of words have been used to obtain high performance in many NLP tasks. In this paper, we extend two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Richard Billingsley , Lan Du , Mark Johnson

By illuminating latent structures in a corpus of text, topic models are an essential tool for categorizing, summarizing, and exploring large collections of documents. Probabilistic topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bahareh Harandizadeh , J. Hunter Priniski , Fred Morstatter

Analyzing ideological discourse even in the age of LLMs remains a challenge, as these models often struggle to capture the key elements that shape real-world narratives. Specifically, LLMs fail to focus on characteristic elements driving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Nishanth Nakshatri , Nikhil Mehta , Siyi Liu , Sihao Chen , Daniel J. Hopkins , Dan Roth , Dan Goldwasser

Topic models have been prevalent for decades to discover latent topics and infer topic proportions of documents in an unsupervised fashion. They have been widely used in various applications like text analysis and context recommendation.…

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