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Extracting topics from large collections of unstructured text-documents has become a central task in current NLP applications and algorithms like NMF, LDA as well as their generalizations are the well-established current state of the art.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Mattias Luber , Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Benjamin Säfken

Podcasts have become an increasingly popular medium for knowledge sharing within the software engineering (SE) community, offering insights into industry developments and the perspectives of professionals with different backgrounds. As this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Marvin Wyrich , Marcos Kalinowski , Adolfo Neto , Sven Apel

We present a unified multi-objective model for targeting both advertisements and promotions within the Spotify podcast ecosystem. Our approach addresses key challenges in personalization and cold-start initialization, particularly for new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shivam Verma , Hannes Karlbom , Yu Zhao , Nick Topping , Vivian Chen , Kieran Stanley , Bharath Rengarajan

In this work, we apply topic modeling using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) on the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) to uncover the underlying thematic structure and its evolution within the extensive body of COVID-19…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Divya Patel , Vansh Parikh , Om Patel , Agam Shah , Bhaskar Chaudhury

Text summarization models are approaching human levels of fidelity. Existing benchmarking corpora provide concordant pairs of full and abridged versions of Web, news or, professional content. To date, all summarization datasets operate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Seyed Ali Bahrainian , Sheridan Feucht , Carsten Eickhoff

Topic models have been extensively used to organize and interpret the contents of large, unstructured corpora of text documents. Although topic models often perform well on traditional training vs. test set evaluations, it is often the case…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Kelsey MacMillan , James D. Wilson

Automatic summary assessment is useful for both machine-generated and human-produced summaries. Automatically evaluating the summary text given the document enables, for example, summary generation system development and detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Potsawee Manakul , Mark J. F. Gales

Social media platforms such as Twitter (now X) provide rich data for analyzing public discourse, especially during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the brevity, informality, and noise of social media short texts often hinder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Wangjiaxuan Xin , Shuhua Yin , Shi Chen , Yaorong Ge

Topic modeling is a key component in unsupervised learning, employed to identify topics within a corpus of textual data. The rapid growth of social media generates an ever-growing volume of textual data daily, making online topic modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Federica Granese , Benjamin Navet , Serena Villata , Charles Bouveyron

In recent years, fully automated content analysis based on probabilistic topic models has become popular among social scientists because of their scalability. The unsupervised nature of the models makes them suitable for exploring topics in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Shusei Eshima , Kosuke Imai , Tomoya Sasaki

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

We introduce PodcastMix, a dataset formalizing the task of separating background music and foreground speech in podcasts. We aim at defining a benchmark suitable for training and evaluating (deep learning) source separation models. To that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Nicolás Schmidt , Jordi Pons , Marius Miron

Most of the information on the Internet is represented in the form of microtexts, which are short text snippets such as news headlines or tweets. These sources of information are abundant, and mining these data could uncover meaningful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Trung Trinh , Tho Quan , Trung Mai

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

Recently, an increasing number of multimodal (text and audio) benchmarks have emerged, primarily focusing on evaluating models' understanding capability. However, exploration into assessing generative capabilities remains limited,…

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) based topic modeling methods do not rely on model- or data-assumptions much. However, they are usually formulated as difficult optimization problems, which may suffer from bad local minima and high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-26 JianYu Wang , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Advances in generative AI, the proliferation of large multimodal models (LMMs), and democratized open access to these technologies have direct implications for the production and diffusion of misinformation. In this prequel, we address…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal , Ujwal Gadiraju , Damiano Spina

News podcasts are a popular medium to stay informed and dive deep into news topics. Today, most podcasts are handcrafted by professionals. In this work, we advance the state-of-the-art in automatically generated podcasts, making use of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Philippe Laban , Elicia Ye , Srujay Korlakunta , John Canny , Marti A. Hearst

Topic modeling is commonly used to analyze and understand large document collections. However, in practice, users want to focus on specific aspects or "targets" rather than the entire corpus. For example, given a large collection of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Hannah Kim , Dongjin Choi , Barry Drake , Alex Endert , Haesun Park

Podcast summarization is different from summarization of other data formats, such as news, patents, and scientific papers in that podcasts are often longer, conversational, colloquial, and full of sponsorship and advertising information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Chujie Zheng , Kunpeng Zhang , Harry Jiannan Wang , Ling Fan