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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

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

Contrarily to standard approaches to topic annotation, the technique used in this work does not centrally rely on some sort of -- possibly statistical -- keyword extraction. In fact, the proposed annotation algorithm uses a large scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre Andrews , Martin Rajman

The abundant sequential documents such as online archival, social media and news feeds are streamingly updated, where each chunk of documents is incorporated with smoothly evolving yet dependent topics. Such digital texts have attracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jinjin Guo , Longbing Cao , Zhiguo Gong

Opinion mining, also known as sentiment analysis, is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that focuses on identifying and extracting subjective information in textual material. This can include determining the overall sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Nour Eddine Zekaoui , Siham Yousfi , Maryem Rhanoui , Mounia Mikram

Causal knowledge extraction is the task of extracting relevant causes and effects from text by detecting the causal relation. Although this task is important for language understanding and knowledge discovery, recent works in this domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Anik Saha , Oktie Hassanzadeh , Alex Gittens , Jian Ni , Kavitha Srinivas , Bulent Yener

Medical coding, the translation of unstructured clinical text into standardized medical codes, is a crucial but time-consuming healthcare practice. Though large language models (LLM) could automate the coding process and improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 John Wu , David Wu , Jimeng Sun

Recently, Transformer-based models have been proven effective in the abstractive summarization task by creating fluent and informative summaries. Nevertheless, these models still suffer from the short-range dependency problem, causing them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu , Truc Lu , Tho Quan

The topic modeling discovers the latent topic probability of the given text documents. To generate the more meaningful topic that better represents the given document, we proposed a new feature extraction technique which can be used in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Ziyi Zhao , Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol , Sheng Lin , Zhe Li , Caiwen Ding , Yanzhi Wang , Qinru Qiu

Support or opposition concerning a debated claim such as abortion should be legal can have different underlying reasons, which we call perspectives. This paper explores how opinion mining can be enhanced with joint topic modeling, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tim Draws , Jody Liu , Nava Tintarev

Keyphrase extraction aims at automatically extracting a list of "important" phrases representing the key concepts in a document. Prior approaches for unsupervised keyphrase extraction resorted to heuristic notions of phrase importance via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Rishabh Joshi , Vidhisha Balachandran , Emily Saldanha , Maria Glenski , Svitlana Volkova , Yulia Tsvetkov

Bibliographic analysis considers author's research areas, the citation network and paper content among other things. In this paper, we combine these three in a topic model that produces a bibliographic model of authors, topics and documents…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Kar Wai Lim , Wray Buntine

A popular approach to topic modeling involves extracting co-occurring n-grams of a corpus into semantic themes. The set of n-grams in a theme represents an underlying topic, but most topic modeling approaches are not able to label these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Justin Wood , Patrick Tan , Wei Wang , Corey Arnold

This article describes posterior maximization for topic models, identifying computational and conceptual gains from inference under a non-standard parametrization. We then show that fitted parameters can be used as the basis for a novel…

Applications · Statistics 2011-12-30 Matthew A. Taddy

Topic segmentation is important in understanding scientific documents since it can not only provide better readability but also facilitate downstream tasks such as information retrieval and question answering by creating appropriate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Jeonghwan Lee , Jiyeong Han , Sunghoon Baek , Min Song

Data annotated by humans is a source of knowledge by describing the peculiarities of the problem and therefore fueling the decision process of the trained model. Unfortunately, the annotation process for subjective natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kamil Kanclerz , Julita Bielaniewicz , Marcin Gruza , Jan Kocon , Stanisław Woźniak , Przemysław Kazienko

Machine-generated texts (MGTs) pose risks such as disinformation and phishing, underscoring the need for reliable detection. Metric-based methods, which extract statistically distinguishable features of MGTs, are often more practical than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chenwang Wu , Yiuming Cheung , Bo Han , Shuhai Zhang , Defu Lian

The successful analysis of argumentative techniques from user-generated text is central to many downstream tasks such as political and market analysis. Recent argument mining tools use state-of-the-art deep learning methods to extract and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Amirhossein Farzam , Shashank Shekhar , Isaac Mehlhaff , Marco Morucci

Model ensembling is a technique to combine the predicted distributions of two or more models, often leading to improved robustness and performance. For ensembling in text generation, the next token's probability distribution is derived from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Rachel Wicks , Kartik Ravisankar , Xinchen Yang , Philipp Koehn , Matt Post

Topic localization aims to identify spans of text that express a given topic defined by a name and description. To study this task, we introduce a human-annotated benchmark based on Czech historical documents, containing human-defined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Martin Kostelník , Michal Hradiš , Martin Dočekal