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Scientific documents rely on both mathematics and text to communicate ideas. Inspired by the topical correspondence between mathematical equations and word contexts observed in scientific texts, we propose a novel topic model that jointly…

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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

Over the years, topic models have provided an efficient way of extracting insights from text. However, while many models have been proposed, none are able to model topic temporality and hierarchy jointly. Modelling time provide more precise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Judicael Poumay , Ashwin Ittoo

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

The ability to monitor the evolution of topics over time is extremely valuable for businesses. Currently, all existing topic tracking methods use lexical information by matching word usage. However, no studies has ever experimented with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Judicael Poumay , Ashwin Ittoo

Recent neural supervised topic segmentation models achieve distinguished superior effectiveness over unsupervised methods, with the availability of large-scale training corpora sampled from Wikipedia. These models may, however, suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Linzi Xing , Patrick Huber , Giuseppe Carenini

Recent years have witnessed increasing interests in developing interpretable models in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most existing models aim at identifying input features such as words or phrases important for model predictions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Topic modelling, as a well-established unsupervised technique, has found extensive use in automatically detecting significant topics within a corpus of documents. However, classic topic modelling approaches (e.g., LDA) have certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yida Mu , Chun Dong , Kalina Bontcheva , Xingyi Song

In recent years, many recommender systems have utilized textual data for topic extraction to enhance interpretability. However, our findings reveal a noticeable deficiency in the coherence of keywords within topics, resulting in low…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Xuefei Jiang , Dairui Liu , Ruihai Dong

Topic models are widely used for discovering latent thematic structures in large text corpora, yet traditional unsupervised methods often struggle to align with pre-defined conceptual domains. This paper introduces seeded Poisson…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Bernd Prostmaier , Jan Vávra , Bettina Grün , Paul Hofmarcher

Statistical topic models efficiently facilitate the exploration of large-scale data sets. Many models have been developed and broadly used to summarize the semantic structure in news, science, social media, and digital humanities. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Jian Tang , Cheng Li , Ming Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei

The effectiveness of in-context learning relies heavily on selecting demonstrations that provide all the necessary information for a given test input. To achieve this, it is crucial to identify and cover fine-grained knowledge requirements.…

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The growing complexity of legal cases has lead to an increasing interest in legal information retrieval systems that can effectively satisfy user-specific information needs. However, such downstream systems typically require documents to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Dennis Aumiller , Satya Almasian , Sebastian Lackner , Michael Gertz

Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity. In this work, we propose a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Raymond Li , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Chuyuan Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

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

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion in the amount of available data produced from various sources with different topics. The availability of this enormous data necessitates us to adopt effective computational tools to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Mina Samizadeh

We address two challenges in topic models: (1) Context information around words helps in determining their actual meaning, e.g., "networks" used in the contexts "artificial neural networks" vs. "biological neuron networks". Generative topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Pankaj Gupta , Yatin Chaudhary , Florian Buettner , Hinrich Schütze

Unsupervised machine learning techniques, such as topic modeling and clustering, are often used to identify latent patterns in unstructured text data in fields such as political science and sociology. These methods overcome common concerns…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Anna Lieb , Maneesh Arora , Eni Mustafaraj

Topic modeling seems to be almost synonymous with generating lists of top words to represent topics within large text corpora. However, deducing a topic from such list of individual terms can require substantial expertise and experience,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Arik Reuter , Bishnu Khadka , Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Sebastian Fischer , Benjamin Säfken

Instead of mining coherent topics from a given text corpus in a completely unsupervised manner, seed-guided topic discovery methods leverage user-provided seed words to extract distinctive and coherent topics so that the mined topics can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Martin Michalski , Yucheng Jiang , Yu Meng , Jiawei Han