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Topic models are valuable for understanding extensive document collections, but they don't always identify the most relevant topics. Classical probabilistic and anchor-based topic models offer interactive versions that allow users to guide…

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Social network analysis (SNA), which is a research field describing and modeling the social connection of a certain group of people, is popular among network services. Our topic words analysis project is a SNA method to visualize the topic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Xi Qiu , Christopher Stewart

Probabilistic models can learn users' preferences from the history of their item adoptions on a social media site, and in turn, recommend new items to users based on learned preferences. However, current models ignore psychological factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Jeon-Hyung Kang , Kristina Lerman

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models trained without stopword removal often produce topics with high posterior probabilities on uninformative words, obscuring the underlying corpus content. Even when canonical stopwords are manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Angela Fan , Finale Doshi-Velez , Luke Miratrix

Text clustering is today the most popular paradigm for topic modelling, both in academia and industry. Despite clustering topic models' apparent success, we identify a number of issues in Top2Vec and BERTopic, which remain largely unsolved.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Márton Kardos

Content-based video retrieval is one of the most challenging tasks in surveillance systems. In this study, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model is used to annotate surveillance videos in an unsupervised manner. In scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mohammad Kianpisheh

Topic models analyze text from a set of documents. Documents are modeled as a mixture of topics, with topics defined as probability distributions on words. Inferences of interest include the most probable topics and characterization of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Jason Wang , Robert E. Weiss

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

Sentiment analysis, widely critiqued for capturing merely the overall tone of a corpus, falls short in accurately reflecting the latent structures and political stances within texts. This study introduces topic metrics, dummy variables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Weihong Qi

In this paper we present a novel framework for extracting the ratable aspects of objects from online user reviews. Extracting such aspects is an important challenge in automatically mining product opinions from the web and in generating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-01-08 Ivan Titov , Ryan McDonald

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

Originally designed to model text, topic modeling has become a powerful tool for uncovering latent structure in domains including medicine, finance, and vision. The goals for the model vary depending on the application: in some cases, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-24 Finale Doshi-Velez , Byron Wallace , Ryan Adams

Topic modeling in applied psychology increasingly spans two methodological traditions: probabilistic bag-of-words models and newer embedding-based approaches. Yet many evaluations of these methods rely on longer and cleaner benchmark…

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Monitoring online customer reviews is important for business organisations to measure customer satisfaction and better manage their reputations. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic Brand-Topic Model (dBTM) which is able to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Runcong Zhao , Lin Gui , Hanqi Yan , Yulan He

Automatically detecting inappropriate content can be a difficult NLP task, requiring understanding context and innuendo, not just identifying specific keywords. Due to the large quantity of online user-generated content, automatic detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Stefania Raimondo , Frank Rudzicz

As the emergence and the thriving development of social networks, a huge number of short texts are accumulated and need to be processed. Inferring latent topics of collected short texts is useful for understanding its hidden structure and…

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We propose a novel document generation process based on hierarchical latent tree models (HLTMs) learned from data. An HLTM has a layer of observed word variables at the bottom and multiple layers of latent variables on top. For each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Peixian Chen , Zhourong Chen , Nevin L. Zhang

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

Topic modeling is widely used for uncovering thematic structures within text corpora, yet traditional models often struggle with specificity and coherence in domain-focused applications. Guided approaches, such as SeededLDA and CorEx,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Chia-Hsuan Chang , Jui-Tse Tsai , Yi-Hang Tsai , San-Yih Hwang