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Topic modelling is a text mining technique for identifying salient themes from a number of documents. The output is commonly a set of topics consisting of isolated tokens that often co-occur in such documents. Manual effort is often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Lowri Williams , Eirini Anthi , Laura Arman , Pete Burnap

Retrieval-based chatbot selects the appropriate response from candidates according to the context, which heavily depends on a response selection module. A response selection module is generally a scoring model to evaluate candidates and is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yao Qiu , Jinchao Zhang , Huiying Ren , Jie Zhou

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

Given the claims of improved text generation quality across various pre-trained neural models, we consider the coherence evaluation of machine generated text to be one of the principal applications of coherence models that needs to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Prathyusha Jwalapuram , Shafiq Joty , Xiang Lin

Context information around words helps in determining their actual meaning, for example "networks" used in contexts of artificial neural networks or biological neuron networks. Generative topic models infer topic-word distributions, taking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Pankaj Gupta , Florian Buettner , Hinrich Schütze

In this paper, we focus on the problem of unsupervised image-sentence matching. Existing research explores to utilize document-level structural information to sample positive and negative instances for model training. Although the approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zejun Li , Zhongyu Wei , Zhihao Fan , Haijun Shan , Xuanjing Huang

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

In today's media landscape, where news outlets play a pivotal role in shaping public opinion, it is imperative to address the issue of sentiment manipulation within news text. News writers often inject their own biases and emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alapan Kuila , Somnath Jena , Sudeshna Sarkar , Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three elements for assessing diversity: words, topics, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Hosein Azarbonyad , Mostafa Dehghani , Tom Kenter , Maarten Marx , Jaap Kamps , Maarten de Rijke

In scientific disciplines where research findings have a strong impact on society, reducing the amount of time it takes to understand, synthesize and exploit the research is invaluable. Topic modeling is an effective technique for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Jennifer Sleeman , Tim Finin , Milton Halem

Topic models jointly learn topics and document-level topic distribution. Extrinsic evaluation of topic models tends to focus exclusively on topic-level evaluation, e.g. by assessing the coherence of topics. We demonstrate that there can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Shraey Bhatia , Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin

Topic modelling is a popular unsupervised method for identifying the underlying themes in document collections that has many applications in information retrieval. A topic is usually represented by a list of terms ranked by their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Areej Alokaili , Nikolaos Aletras , Mark Stevenson

News recommender systems are hindered by the brief lifespan of articles, as they undergo rapid relevance decay. Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of content-based neural techniques in tackling this problem. However, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Miguel Ângelo Rebelo , João Vinagre , Ivo Pereira , Álvaro Figueira

We present a new topic model that generates documents by sampling a topic for one whole sentence at a time, and generating the words in the sentence using an RNN decoder that is conditioned on the topic of the sentence. We argue that this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Ramesh Nallapati , Igor Melnyk , Abhishek Kumar , Bowen Zhou

Language models have demonstrated the ability to generate highly fluent text; however, it remains unclear whether their output retains coherent high-level structure (e.g., story progression). Here, we propose to apply a statistical tool,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yuntian Deng , Volodymyr Kuleshov , Alexander M. Rush

To overcome the data sparsity issue in short text topic modeling, existing methods commonly rely on data augmentation or the data characteristic of short texts to introduce more word co-occurrence information. However, most of them do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Xiaobao Wu , Anh Tuan Luu , Xinshuai Dong

The growing use of unstructured text in business research makes topic modeling a central tool for constructing explanatory variables from reviews, social media, and open-ended survey responses, yet existing approaches function poorly as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Stephan Ludwig , Peter J. Danaher , Xiaohao Yang

Qualitative research is an approach to understanding social phenomenon based around human interpretation of data, particularly text. Probabilistic topic modelling is a machine learning approach that is also based around the analysis of text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Marco Gillies , Dhiraj Murthy , Harry Brenton , Rapheal Olaniyan

Machine learning approaches to multi-label document classification have to date largely relied on discriminative modeling techniques such as support vector machines. A drawback of these approaches is that performance rapidly drops off as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-11 Timothy N. Rubin , America Chambers , Padhraic Smyth , Mark Steyvers

Inspired by the inductive transfer learning on computer vision, many efforts have been made to train contextualized language models that boost the performance of natural language processing tasks. These models are mostly trained on large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Shohreh Shaghaghian , Luna , Feng , Borna Jafarpour , Nicolai Pogrebnyakov