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The tremendous growth of social media content on the Internet has inspired the development of the text analytics to understand and solve real-life problems. Leveraging statistical topic modelling helps researchers and practitioners in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Marina Sokolova , Kanyi Huang , Stan Matwin , Joshua Ramisch , Vera Sazonova , Renee Black , Chris Orwa , Sidney Ochieng , Nanjira Sambuli

Extracting and identifying latent topics in large text corpora has gained increasing importance in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most models, whether probabilistic models similar to Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or neural topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Anton Thielmann , Quentin Seifert , Arik Reuter , Elisabeth Bergherr , Benjamin Säfken

The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an `infodemic' -- of accurate and inaccurate health information across social media. Detecting misinformation amidst dynamically changing information landscape is challenging; identifying…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Harry Wang , Sharath Chandra Guntuku

Weak topic correlation across document collections with different numbers of topics in individual collections presents challenges for existing cross-collection topic models. This paper introduces two probabilistic topic models, Correlated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Jingwei Zhang , Aaron Gerow , Jaan Altosaar , James Evans , Richard Jean So

Detection of emerging topics are now receiving renewed interest motivated by the rapid growth of social networks. Conventional term-frequency-based approaches may not be appropriate in this context, because the information exchanged are not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-10-14 Toshimitsu Takahashi , Ryota Tomioka , Kenji Yamanishi

Standard LDA model suffers the problem that the topic assignment of each word is independent and word correlation hence is neglected. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a model called Word Related Latent Dirichlet Allocation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xun Wang

The extensive use of social media for sharing and obtaining information has resulted in the development of topic detection models to facilitate the comprehension of the overwhelming amount of short and distributed posts. Probabilistic topic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-22 A. Yıldırım , S. Uskudarli

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

We propose a Label Propagation based algorithm for weakly supervised text classification. We construct a graph where each document is represented by a node and edge weights represent similarities among the documents. Additionally, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Sachin Pawar , Nitin Ramrakhiyani , Swapnil Hingmire , Girish K. Palshikar

Dynamic topic modeling is widely used to analyze evolving trends in scientific literature, medical records, and social media. Traditional topic models represent each topic through a single probability vector on the multinomial simplex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hanjia Gao , Hanwen Ye , Qing Nie , Annie Qu

Across many data domains, co-occurrence statistics about the joint appearance of objects are powerfully informative. By transforming unsupervised learning problems into decompositions of co-occurrence statistics, spectral algorithms provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Moontae Lee , Sungjun Cho , Kun Dong , David Mimno , David Bindel

Existing topic modeling and text segmentation methodologies generally require large datasets for training, limiting their capabilities when only small collections of text are available. In this work, we reexamine the inter-related problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qiong Wu , Adam Hare , Sirui Wang , Yuwei Tu , Zhenming Liu , Christopher G. Brinton , Yanhua Li

With the ease of access to information, and its rapid dissemination over the internet (both velocity and volume), it has become challenging to filter out truthful information from fake ones. The research community is now faced with the task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Akansha Gautam , Venktesh V , Sarah Masud

Micro-blogging services can track users' geo-locations when users check-in their places or use geo-tagging which implicitly reveals locations. This "geo tracking" can help to find topics triggered by some events in certain regions. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Siwei Qiang , Yongkun Wang , Yaohui Jin

Topic modeling is a powerful technique for uncovering hidden themes within a collection of documents. However, the effectiveness of traditional topic models often relies on sufficient word co-occurrence, which is lacking in short texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Pritom Saha Akash , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

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

Due to recent explosion of text data, researchers have been overwhelmed by ever-increasing volume of articles produced by different research communities. Various scholarly search websites, citation recommendation engines, and research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Yihuang Kang , Keng-Pei Lin , I-Ling Cheng

Search techniques make use of elementary information such as term frequencies and document lengths in computation of similarity weighting. They can also exploit richer statistics, in particular the number of documents in which any two terms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Bodo Billerbeck , Justin Zobel , Nicholas Lester , Nick Craswell

In the real world, many topics are inter-correlated, making it challenging to investigate their structure and relationships. Understanding the interplay between topics and their relevance can provide valuable insights for researchers,…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-01 Yeseul Jeon , Jina Park , Ick Hoon Jin , Dongjun Chungc

We introduce the author-topic model, a generative model for documents that extends Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA; Blei, Ng, & Jordan, 2003) to include authorship information. Each author is associated with a multinomial distribution over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Michal Rosen-Zvi , Thomas Griffiths , Mark Steyvers , Padhraic Smyth