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We study a parametric family of latent variable models, namely topic models, equipped with a hierarchical structure among the topic variables. Such models may be viewed as a finite mixture of the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) induced…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Sunrit Chakraborty , Rayleigh Lei , XuanLong Nguyen

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a foundational model for discovering latent thematic structure in discrete data, but its Dirichlet prior cannot represent the rich correlations and hierarchical relationships often present among topics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zheng Wang , Nizar Bouguila

Topic modeling, a method for extracting the underlying themes from a collection of documents, is an increasingly important component of the design of intelligent systems enabling the sense-making of highly dynamic and diverse streams of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Chris Gropp , Alexander Herzog , Ilya Safro , Paul W. Wilson , Amy W. Apon

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a prominent generative probabilistic model used for uncovering abstract topics within document collections. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of augmenting topic models with Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mengze Hong , Chen Jason Zhang , Di Jiang

Probabilistic topic models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) are popularly used with Bayesian inference methods such as Gibbs sampling to learn posterior distributions over topic model parameters. We derive a novel measure of LDA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Linzi Xing , Michael J. Paul , Giuseppe Carenini

For organizing large text corpora topic modeling provides useful tools. A widely used method is Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a generative probabilistic model which models single texts in a collection of texts as mixtures of latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jonas Rieger , Lars Koppers , Carsten Jentsch , Jörg Rahnenführer

We investigate ways in which to improve the interpretability of LDA topic models by better analyzing and visualizing their outputs. We focus on examining what we refer to as topic similarity networks: graphs in which nodes represent latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Arun S. Maiya , Robert M. Rolfe

An important aspect of text mining involves information retrieval in form of discovery of semantic themes (topics) from documents using topic modelling. While generative topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or Latent Semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Satyajeet Sahoo , Jhareswar Maiti

Variational Bayes (VB) applied to latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has become the most popular algorithm for aspect modeling. While sufficiently successful in text topic extraction from large corpora, VB is less successful in identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Rebecca M. C. Taylor , Johan A. du Preez

Topic models have emerged as fundamental tools in unsupervised machine learning. Most modern topic modeling algorithms take a probabilistic view and derive inference algorithms based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or its variants. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ke Jiang , Suvrit Sra , Brian Kulis

Word clouds are frequently used to analyze and communicate text data in many domains. In order to help guide research on improving the legibility of word clouds, we have conducted a survey of their usage in Digital Humanities academia and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Rebecca M. M. Hicke , Maanya Goenka , Eric Alexander

Supervised topic models can help clinical researchers find interpretable cooccurence patterns in count data that are relevant for diagnostics. However, standard formulations of supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation have two problems.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-07 Michael C. Hughes , Huseyin Melih Elibol , Thomas McCoy , Roy Perlis , Finale Doshi-Velez

Topic modeling analyzes documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. For documents collected in sequence, dynamic topic models capture how these patterns vary over time. We develop the dynamic embedded topic model (D-ETM), a generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei

Topic modeling is a well-established technique for exploring text corpora. Conventional topic models (e.g., LDA) represent topics as bags of words that often require "reading the tea leaves" to interpret; additionally, they offer users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chau Minh Pham , Alexander Hoyle , Simeng Sun , Philip Resnik , Mohit Iyyer

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique in academia but less so in industry, especially in large-scale applications involving search engine and online advertising systems. A main underlying reason is that the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yi Wang , Xuemin Zhao , Zhenlong Sun , Hao Yan , Lifeng Wang , Zhihui Jin , Liubin Wang , Yang Gao , Ching Law , Jia Zeng

Language models are typically applied at the sentence level, without access to the broader document context. We present a neural language model that incorporates document context in the form of a topic model-like architecture, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

Crowdfunding in the realm of the Social Web has received substantial attention, with prior research examining various aspects of campaigns, including project objectives, durations, and influential project categories for successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Prathamesh Muzumdar , George Kurian , Ganga Prasad Basyal

Statistical topic models are increasingly and popularly used by Digital Humanities scholars to perform distant reading tasks on literary data. It allows us to estimate what people talk about. Especially Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Thomas N. Haider

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

In this paper, we present hierarchical relationbased latent Dirichlet allocation (hrLDA), a data-driven hierarchical topic model for extracting terminological ontologies from a large number of heterogeneous documents. In contrast to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Xiaofeng Zhu , Diego Klabjan , Patrick Bless