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Topic modeling is used for discovering latent semantic structure, usually referred to as topics, in a large collection of documents. The most widely used methods are Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Dimo Angelov

This paper proposes a topic modeling method that scales linearly to billions of documents. We make three core contributions: i) we present a topic modeling method, Tensor Latent Dirichlet Allocation (TLDA), that has identifiable and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sara Kangaslahti , Danny Ebanks , Jean Kossaifi , Anqi Liu , R. Michael Alvarez , Animashree Anandkumar

The problem of searching for experts in a given academic field is hugely important in both industry and academia. We study exactly this issue with respect to a database of authors and their publications. The idea is to use Latent Semantic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Charanpal Dhanjal , Stéphan Clémençon

We propose a topic modeling approach to the prediction of preferences in pairwise comparisons. We develop a new generative model for pairwise comparisons that accounts for multiple shared latent rankings that are prevalent in a population…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Weicong Ding , Prakash Ishwar , Venkatesh Saligrama

Research background: With the continuous development of society, consumers pay more attention to the key information of product fine-grained attributes when shopping. Research purposes: This study will fine tune the Sentence-BERT word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jianheng Li , Lirong Chen

Network-based procedures for topic detection in huge text collections offer an intuitive alternative to probabilistic topic models. We present in detail a method that is especially designed with the requirements of domain experts in mind.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Andreas Hamm , Simon Odrowski

A text mining approach is proposed based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to analyze the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) consumer complaints. The proposed approach aims to extract latent topics in the CFPB complaint…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Kaveh Bastani , Hamed Namavari , Jeffry Shaffer

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

Using the 6,638 case descriptions of societal impact submitted for evaluation in the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), we replicate the topic model (Latent Dirichlet Allocation or LDA) made in this context and compare the results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Tobias Hecking , Loet Leydesdorff

In recent years, fully automated content analysis based on probabilistic topic models has become popular among social scientists because of their scalability. The unsupervised nature of the models makes them suitable for exploring topics in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Shusei Eshima , Kosuke Imai , Tomoya Sasaki

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

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

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

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

Topics models, such as LDA, are widely used in Natural Language Processing. Making their output interpretable is an important area of research with applications to areas such as the enhancement of exploratory search interfaces and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Areej Alokaili , Nikolaos Aletras , Mark Stevenson

This study compares the effectiveness of BERTopic and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) in extracting meaningful topics from aviation safety reports aiming to enhance the understanding of patterns in aviation incident data.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Aziida Nanyonga , Joiner Keith , Turhan Ugur , Wild Graham

This study investigates the use of neural topic modeling and LLMs to uncover meaningful themes from patient storytelling data, to offer insights that could contribute to more patient-oriented healthcare practices. We analyze a collection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Teodor-Călin Ionescu , Lifeng Han , Jan Heijdra Suasnabar , Anne Stiggelbout , Suzan Verberne

Topic Modelling (TM) is from the research branches of natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language processing (NLP) that is to facilitate insightful analysis from large documents and datasets, such as a summarisation of main…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Bernadeta Griciūtė , Lifeng Han , Goran Nenadic

Extracting topics from text has become an essential task, especially with the rapid growth of unstructured textual data. Most existing works rely on highly computational methods to address this challenge. In this paper, we argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Salma Mekaoui , Hiba Sofyan , Imane Amaaz , Imane Benchrif , Arsalane Zarghili , Ilham Chaker , Nikola S. Nikolov

By illuminating latent structures in a corpus of text, topic models are an essential tool for categorizing, summarizing, and exploring large collections of documents. Probabilistic topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bahareh Harandizadeh , J. Hunter Priniski , Fred Morstatter