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Topic models are a popular approach for extracting semantic information from large document collections. However, recent studies suggest that the topics generated by these models often do not align well with human intentions. Although…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Mayank Nagda , Phil Ostheimer , Sophie Fellenz

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

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for revealing underlying thematic structures within textual data. However, existing models have certain limitations, particularly when dealing with short text datasets that lack co-occurring words.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Han Wang , Nirmalendu Prakash , Nguyen Khoi Hoang , Ming Shan Hee , Usman Naseem , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

We propose a neural network based approach for learning topics from text and image datasets. The model makes no assumptions about the conditional distribution of the observed features given the latent topics. This allows us to perform topic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

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

Topic models are a useful analysis tool to uncover the underlying themes within document collections. The dominant approach is to use probabilistic topic models that posit a generative story, but in this paper we propose an alternative way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Suzanna Sia , Ayush Dalmia , Sabrina J. Mielke

Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity. In this work, we propose a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Raymond Li , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Chuyuan Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

Human-in-the-loop topic modelling incorporates users' knowledge into the modelling process, enabling them to refine the model iteratively. Recent research has demonstrated the value of user feedback, but there are still issues to consider,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Zheng Fang , Lama Alqazlan , Du Liu , Yulan He , Rob Procter

Topic models are one of the compelling methods for discovering latent semantics in a document collection. However, it assumes that a document has sufficient co-occurrence information to be effective. However, in short texts, co-occurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pritom Saha Akash , Jie Huang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

In the retrieval-based multi-turn dialogue modeling, it remains a challenge to select the most appropriate response according to extracting salient features in context utterances. As a conversation goes on, topic shift at discourse-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Yi Xu , Hai Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang

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

Neural models have recently been used in text summarization including headline generation. The model can be trained using a set of document-headline pairs. However, the model does not explicitly consider topical similarities and differences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Lei Xu , Ziyun Wang , Ayana , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Interpretation of topics is crucial for their downstream applications. State-of-the-art evaluation measures of topic quality such as coherence and word intrusion do not measure how much a topic facilitates the exploration of a corpus. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Swapnil Hingmire , Ze Shi Li , Shiyu , Zeng , Ahmed Musa Awon , Luiz Franciscatto Guerra , Neil Ernst

This paper proposes a modeling framework for dynamic topic evolution based on temporal large language models. The method first uses a large language model to obtain contextual embeddings of text and then introduces a temporal decay function…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Di Wu , Shuaidong Pan

Recent years have witnessed a surge of interests of using neural topic models for automatic topic extraction from text, since they avoid the complicated mathematical derivations for model inference as in traditional topic models such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Rui Wang , Xuemeng Hu , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He , Yuxuan Xiong , Chenchen Ye , Haiyang Xu

Given a small corpus $\mathcal D_T$ pertaining to a limited set of focused topics, our goal is to train embeddings that accurately capture the sense of words in the topic in spite of the limited size of $\mathcal D_T$. These embeddings may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Vihari Piratla , Sunita Sarawagi , Soumen Chakrabarti

Topic evolution modeling has received significant attentions in recent decades. Although various topic evolution models have been proposed, most studies focus on the single document corpus. However in practice, we can easily access data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yandi Zhu , Xiaoling Lu , Jingya Hong , Feifei Wang

Topic modeling refers to the task of discovering the underlying thematic structure in a text corpus, where the output is commonly presented as a report of the top terms appearing in each topic. Despite the diversity of topic modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Derek Greene , Derek O'Callaghan , Pádraig Cunningham

Topic modeling plays a vital role in uncovering hidden semantic structures within text corpora, but existing models struggle in low-resource settings where limited target-domain data leads to unstable and incoherent topic inference. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Pritom Saha Akash , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Over the years, topic models have provided an efficient way of extracting insights from text. However, while many models have been proposed, none are able to model topic temporality and hierarchy jointly. Modelling time provide more precise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Judicael Poumay , Ashwin Ittoo