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Twitter data is extremely noisy -- each tweet is short, unstructured and with informal language, a challenge for current topic modeling. On the other hand, tweets are accompanied by extra information such as authorship, hashtags and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Kar Wai Lim , Changyou Chen , Wray Buntine

The short text has been the prevalent format for information of Internet in recent decades, especially with the development of online social media, whose millions of users generate a vast number of short messages everyday. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Yuan Zuo , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

Discovering and evaluating long-form talk content such as videos and podcasts poses a significant challenge for users, as it requires a considerable time investment. Previews offer a practical solution by providing concise snippets that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Winstead Zhu , Ann Clifton , Azin Ghazimatin , Edgar Tanaka , Edward Ronan

Over the last years, topic modeling has emerged as a powerful technique for organizing and summarizing big collections of documents or searching for particular patterns in them. However, privacy concerns may arise when cross-analyzing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé , Jerónimo Arenas-García

One of the challenges for text analysis in medical domains is analyzing large-scale medical documents. As a consequence, finding relevant documents has become more difficult. One of the popular methods to retrieve information based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Amir Karami , Aryya Gangopadhyay , Bin Zhou , Hadi Kharrazi

To unfold the tremendous amount of multimedia data uploaded daily to social media platforms, effective topic modeling techniques are needed. Existing work tends to apply topic models on written text datasets. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Lukas Stappen , Jason Thies , Gerhard Hagerer , Björn W. Schuller , Georg Groh

Topic models are a popular approach for extracting semantic information from large document collections. However, recent studies suggest that the topics generated by these models often do not align well with human intentions. Although…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Mayank Nagda , Phil Ostheimer , Sophie Fellenz

Topic models have been widely explored as probabilistic generative models of documents. Traditional inference methods have sought closed-form derivations for updating the models, however as the expressiveness of these models grows, so does…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Yishu Miao , Edward Grefenstette , Phil Blunsom

Modeling topics effectively in short texts, such as tweets and news snippets, is crucial to capturing rapidly evolving social trends. Existing topic models often struggle to accurately capture the underlying semantic patterns of short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuyu Chang , Rui Wang , Peng Ren , Qi Wang , Haiping Huang

Topic models are a popular tool for understanding text collections, but their evaluation has been a point of contention. Automated evaluation metrics such as coherence are often used, however, their validity has been questioned for neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zongxia Li , Andrew Mao , Daniel Stephens , Pranav Goel , Emily Walpole , Alden Dima , Juan Fung , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Many classification models work poorly on short texts due to data sparsity. To address this issue, we propose topic memory networks for short text classification with a novel topic memory mechanism to encode latent topic representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jichuan Zeng , Jing Li , Yan Song , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Current topic models often suffer from discovering topics not matching human intuition, unnatural switching of topics within documents and high computational demands. We address these concerns by proposing a topic model and an inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Johannes Schneider

Topic modeling analyzes a collection of documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. However, previous topic models consider only the spelling of words and do not take into consideration the homography of words. In this study, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Takashi Shibuya , Takehito Utsuro

Extracting entities and relations for types of interest from text is important for understanding massive text corpora. Traditionally, systems of entity relation extraction have relied on human-annotated corpora for training and adopted an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Xiang Ren , Zeqiu Wu , Wenqi He , Meng Qu , Clare R. Voss , Heng Ji , Tarek F. Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

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

Along with the emergence and popularity of social communications on the Internet, topic discovery from short texts becomes fundamental to many applications that require semantic understanding of textual content. As a rising research field,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Jipeng Qiang , Yun Li , Yunhao Yuan , Wei Liu , Xindong Wu

Evaluating personalized recommendations remains a central challenge, especially in long-form audio domains like podcasts, where traditional offline metrics suffer from exposure bias and online methods such as A/B testing are costly and…

Topic Modeling refers to the problem of discovering the main topics that have occurred in corpora of textual data, with solutions finding crucial applications in numerous fields. In this work, inspired by the recent advancements in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Mining a set of meaningful and distinctive topics automatically from massive text corpora has broad applications. Existing topic models, however, typically work in a purely unsupervised way, which often generate topics that do not fit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Yu Meng , Jiaxin Huang , Guangyuan Wang , Zihan Wang , Chao Zhang , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Collaborative tagging systems, such as Delicious, CiteULike, and others, allow users to annotate resources, e.g., Web pages or scientific papers, with descriptive labels called tags. The social annotations contributed by thousands of users,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-05-28 Anon Plangprasopchok , Kristina Lerman