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New events emerge over time influencing the topics of rumors in social media. Current rumor detection benchmarks use random splits as training, development and test sets which typically results in topical overlaps. Consequently, models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Yida Mu , Kalina Bontcheva , Nikolaos Aletras

The essential task of Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) is to organize a collection of news media into clusters of stories that pertain to the same real-world event. To apply TDT models to practical applications such as search engines and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Doug Beeferman , Hang Jiang

The global popularity of microblogs has led to an increasing accumulation of large volumes of text data on microblogging platforms such as Twitter. These corpora are untapped resources to understand social expressions on diverse subjects.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Tharindu Rukshan Bandaragoda , Daswin De Silva , Damminda Alahakoon

The spread of fake news remains a serious global issue; understanding and curtailing it is paramount. One way of differentiating between deceptive and truthful stories is by analyzing their coherence. This study explores the use of topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Martins Samuel Dogo , Deepak P , Anna Jurek-Loughrey

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

A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three elements for assessing diversity: words, topics, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Hosein Azarbonyad , Mostafa Dehghani , Tom Kenter , Maarten Marx , Jaap Kamps , Maarten de Rijke

The amount of text generated daily on social media is gigantic and analyzing this text is useful for many purposes. To understand what lies beneath a huge amount of text, we need dependable and effective computing techniques from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ngozichukwuka Onah , Nadine Steinmetz , Hani Al-Sayeh , Kai-Uwe Sattler

This study presents a framework for automated evaluation of dynamically evolving topic models using Large Language Models (LLMs). Topic modeling is essential for organizing and retrieving scholarly content in digital library systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Zhiyin Tan , Jennifer D'Souza

Topic modelling is a popular unsupervised method for identifying the underlying themes in document collections that has many applications in information retrieval. A topic is usually represented by a list of terms ranked by their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Areej Alokaili , Nikolaos Aletras , Mark Stevenson

Topic models jointly learn topics and document-level topic distribution. Extrinsic evaluation of topic models tends to focus exclusively on topic-level evaluation, e.g. by assessing the coherence of topics. We demonstrate that there can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shraey Bhatia , Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin

Topic-controllable summarization is an emerging research area with a wide range of potential applications. However, existing approaches suffer from significant limitations. For example, the majority of existing methods built upon recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tatiana Passali , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Document clustering and topic modeling are two closely related tasks which can mutually benefit each other. Topic modeling can project documents into a topic space which facilitates effective document clustering. Cluster labels discovered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Pengtao Xie , Eric P. Xing

The time at which a message is communicated is a vital piece of metadata in many real-world natural language processing tasks such as Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). TDT systems aim to cluster a corpus of news articles by event, and in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Hang Jiang , Doug Beeferman , Weiquan Mao , Deb Roy

Large language models (LLMs) often produce unsupported or unverifiable content, known as "hallucinations." To mitigate this, retrieval-augmented LLMs incorporate citations, grounding the content in verifiable sources. Despite such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Weijia Zhang , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Yifei Yuan , Jiahuan Pei , Jia-Hong Huang , Evangelos Kanoulas

Topic modelling has become increasingly popular for summarizing text data, such as social media posts and articles. However, topic modelling is usually completed in one shot. Assessing the quality of resulting topics is challenging. No…

As large-scale, pre-trained language models achieve human-level and superhuman accuracy on existing language understanding tasks, statistical bias in benchmark data and probing studies have recently called into question their true…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Shane Storks , Joyce Chai

Using LLMs for Multi-Document Topic Extraction has recently gained popularity due to their apparent high-quality outputs, expressiveness, and ease of use. However, most existing evaluation practices are not designed for LLM-generated topics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Itamar Trainin , Omri Abend

Topic segmentation and labeling is often considered a prerequisite for higher-level conversation analysis and has been shown to be useful in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. We present two new corpora of email and blog…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Shafiq Rayhan Joty , Giuseppe Carenini , Raymond T Ng

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

Coherence is a linguistic term that refers to the relations between small textual units (sentences, propositions), which make the text logically consistent and meaningful to the reader. With the advances of generative foundational models in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aviya Maimon , Reut Tsarfaty