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Topic models have been the prominent tools for automatic topic discovery from text corpora. Despite their effectiveness, topic models suffer from several limitations including the inability of modeling word ordering information in…

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Modeling document structure is of great importance for discourse analysis and related applications. The goal of this research is to capture the document intent structure by modeling documents as a mixture of topic words and rhetorical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Bei Chen , Jun Zhu , Nan Yang , Tian Tian , Ming Zhou , Bo Zhang

Topic modelling techniques such as LDA have recently been applied to speech transcripts and OCR output. These corpora may contain noisy or erroneous texts which may undermine topic stability. Therefore, it is important to know how well a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Jing Su , Oisín Boydell , Derek Greene , Gerard Lynch

Individual events at high-energy colliders like the LHC can be represented by a sequence of measurements, or 'point patterns' in an observable space. Starting from this data representation, we build a simple Bayesian probabilistic model for…

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Supervisory signals can help topic models discover low-dimensional data representations that are more interpretable for clinical tasks. We propose a framework for training supervised latent Dirichlet allocation that balances two goals:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Michael C. Hughes , Gabriel Hope , Leah Weiner , Thomas H. McCoy , Roy H. Perlis , Erik B. Sudderth , Finale Doshi-Velez

This article presents a probabilistic generative model for text based on semantic topics and syntactic classes called Part-of-Speech LDA (POSLDA). POSLDA simultaneously uncovers short-range syntactic patterns (syntax) and long-range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-03-13 William M. Darling , Fei Song

Latent Dirichlet Allocation models discrete data as a mixture of discrete distributions, using Dirichlet beliefs over the mixture weights. We study a variation of this concept, in which the documents' mixture weight beliefs are replaced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Philipp Hennig , David Stern , Ralf Herbrich , Thore Graepel

In Recommender systems, data representation techniques play a great role as they have the power to entangle, hide and reveal explanatory factors embedded within datasets. Hence, they influence the quality of recommendations. Specifically,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Bereket Abera Yilma , Najib Aghenda , Marcelo Romero , Yannick Naudet , Herve Panetto

Recent work utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) for topic modeling, generating comprehensible topic labels for given documents. However, their performance has mainly been evaluated qualitatively, and there remains room for quantitative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tomoki Doi , Masaru Isonuma , Hitomi Yanaka

Topic modeling is a branch of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims to organize large collections of texts into coherent groups according to word co-occurrence patterns, with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) remaining one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alex Ding , Tarun Rapaka , Willy Rodriguez , Jason Yang

In this paper, we propose guaranteed spectral methods for learning a broad range of topic models, which generalize the popular Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). We overcome the limitation of LDA to incorporate arbitrary topic correlations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Forough Arabshahi , Animashree Anandkumar

Latent Dirichlet analysis, or topic modeling, is a flexible latent variable framework for modeling high-dimensional sparse count data. Various learning algorithms have been developed in recent years, including collapsed Gibbs sampling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Arthur Asuncion , Max Welling , Padhraic Smyth , Yee Whye Teh

Recently, topic modeling has been widely used to discover the abstract topics in text corpora. Most of the existing topic models are based on the assumption of three-layer hierarchical Bayesian structure, i.e. each document is modeled as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Yi-Kun Tang , Xian-Ling Mao , Heyan Huang , Guihua Wen

There is an escalating need for methods to identify latent patterns in text data from many domains. We introduce a new method to identify topics in a corpus and represent documents as topic sequences. Discourse Atom Topic Modeling draws on…

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Automatically generating data visualizations in response to human utterances on datasets necessitates a deep semantic understanding of the data utterance, including implicit and explicit references to data attributes, visualization tasks,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Hannah K. Bako , Arshnoor Bhutani , Xinyi Liu , Kwesi A. Cobbina , Zhicheng Liu

Inferring topics from the overwhelming amount of short texts becomes a critical but challenging task for many content analysis tasks, such as content charactering, user interest profiling, and emerging topic detecting. Existing methods such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jipeng Qiang , Ping Chen , Tong Wang , Xindong Wu

Topic modeling is widely used for analytically evaluating large collections of textual data. One of the most popular topic techniques is Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which is flexible and adaptive, but not optimal for e.g. short texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Muriël de Groot , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Marcel R. Haas

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

The training of topic models for a multilingual environment is a challenging task, requiring the use of sophisticated algorithms, topic-aligned corpora, and manual evaluation. These difficulties are further exacerbated when the developer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Felix Engl , Andreas Henrich

Topic modeling seeks to uncover latent semantic structure in text, with LDA providing a foundational probabilistic framework. While recent methods often incorporate external knowledge (e.g., pre-trained embeddings), such reliance limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tal Ishon , Yoav Goldberg , Uri Shaham