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Topic modeling aims to produce interpretable topic representations and topic--document correspondences from corpora, but classical neural topic models (NTMs) remain constrained by limited representation assumptions and semantic abstraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xuan Xu , Zhongliang Yang , Haolun Li , Beilin Chu , Rui Tian , Yu Li , Shaolin Tan , Linna Zhou

Word embedding (WE) techniques are advanced textual semantic representation models oriented from the natural language processing (NLP) area. Inspired by their effectiveness in facilitating various NLP tasks, more and more researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xiaohan Chen , Weiqin Zou , Lianyi Zhi , Qianshuang Meng , Jingxuan Zhang

Topic models have been widely used in discovering latent topics which are shared across documents in text mining. Vector representations, word embeddings and topic embeddings, map words and topics into a low-dimensional and dense real-value…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Jarvan Law , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Junhua He , Erhu Rong

Though word embeddings and topics are complementary representations, several past works have only used pretrained word embeddings in (neural) topic modeling to address data sparsity in short-text or small collection of documents. This work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Pankaj Gupta , Yatin Chaudhary , Hinrich Schütze

We propose a Topic Compositional Neural Language Model (TCNLM), a novel method designed to simultaneously capture both the global semantic meaning and the local word ordering structure in a document. The TCNLM learns the global semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Wenlin Wang , Zhe Gan , Wenqi Wang , Dinghan Shen , Jiaji Huang , Wei Ping , Sanjeev Satheesh , Lawrence Carin

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

Topic modelling is a pivotal unsupervised machine learning technique for extracting valuable insights from large document collections. Existing neural topic modelling methods often encode contextual information of documents, while ignoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yanan Ma , Chenghao Xiao , Chenhan Yuan , Sabine N van der Veer , Lamiece Hassan , Chenghua Lin , Goran Nenadic

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

Topic models have evolved from conventional Bayesian probabilistic models to recent Neural Topic Models (NTMs). Although NTMs have shown promising performance when trained and tested on a specific corpus, their generalisation ability across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Lan Du

Data representation is a fundamental task in machine learning. The representation of data affects the performance of the whole machine learning system. In a long history, the representation of data is done by feature engineering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Siwei Lai

In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) has become the dominant approach in automated translation. However, like many other deep learning approaches, NMT suffers from overfitting when the amount of training data is limited. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Ehsan Zare Borzeshi , Massimo Piccardi

To simultaneously capture syntax and global semantics from a text corpus, we propose a new larger-context recurrent neural network (RNN) based language model, which extracts recurrent hierarchical semantic structure via a dynamic deep topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Dandan Guo , Bo Chen , Ruiying Lu , Mingyuan Zhou

Lifelong learning has recently attracted attention in building machine learning systems that continually accumulate and transfer knowledge to help future learning. Unsupervised topic modeling has been popularly used to discover topics from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Pankaj Gupta , Yatin Chaudhary , Thomas Runkler , Hinrich Schütze

We show how to learn a neural topic model with discrete random variables---one that explicitly models each word's assigned topic---using neural variational inference that does not rely on stochastic backpropagation to handle the discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Mehdi Rezaee , Francis Ferraro

This paper introduces a novel approach for topic modeling utilizing latent codebooks from Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoder~(VQ-VAE), discretely encapsulating the rich information of the pre-trained embeddings such as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 YoungJoon Yoo , Jongwon Choi

Word embedding models such as Skip-gram learn a vector-space representation for each word, based on the local word collocation patterns that are observed in a text corpus. Latent topic models, on the other hand, take a more global view,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Bei Shi , Wai Lam , Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert , Kwun Ping Lai

Embedding-based neural topic models could explicitly represent words and topics by embedding them to a homogeneous feature space, which shows higher interpretability. However, there are no explicit constraints for the training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Wei Shao , Lei Huang , Shuqi Liu , Shihua Ma , Linqi Song

Topic modeling is traditionally applied to word counts without accounting for the context in which words appear. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) offer contextualized word embeddings, which capture deeper meaning and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Morgane Austern , Yuanchuan Guo , Zheng Tracy Ke , Tianle Liu

Named entity recognition (NER) models are typically based on the architecture of Bi-directional LSTM (BiLSTM). The constraints of sequential nature and the modeling of single input prevent the full utilization of global information from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Ying Luo , Fengshun Xiao , Hai Zhao

A topic model is often formulated as a generative model that explains how each word of a document is generated given a set of topics and document-specific topic proportions. It is focused on capturing the word co-occurrences in a document…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Dongsheng Wang , Dandan Guo , He Zhao , Huangjie Zheng , Korawat Tanwisuth , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou