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Topic discovery in scientific literature provides valuable insights for researchers to identify emerging trends and explore new avenues for investigation, facilitating easier scientific information retrieval. Many machine learning methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Pengjiang Li , Zaitian Wang , Xinhao Zhang , Ran Zhang , Lu Jiang , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

This work combines algorithms based on word embeddings, dimensionality reduction, and clustering. The objective is to obtain topics from a set of unclassified texts. The algorithm to obtain the word embeddings is the BERT model, a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Diego Saldaña Ulloa

Many classification models work poorly on short texts due to data sparsity. To address this issue, we propose topic memory networks for short text classification with a novel topic memory mechanism to encode latent topic representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jichuan Zeng , Jing Li , Yan Song , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Analyzing short texts infers discriminative and coherent latent topics that is a critical and fundamental task since many real-world applications require semantic understanding of short texts. Traditional long text topic modeling algorithms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Qiang Jipeng , Qian Zhenyu , Li Yun , Yuan Yunhao , Wu Xindong

Topic models are widely used in natural language processing, allowing researchers to estimate the underlying themes in a collection of documents. Most topic models use unsupervised methods and hence require the additional step of attaching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Alexander Herzog , Peter John , Slava Jankin Mikhaylov

Document clustering and topic modeling are two closely related tasks which can mutually benefit each other. Topic modeling can project documents into a topic space which facilitates effective document clustering. Cluster labels discovered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Pengtao Xie , Eric P. Xing

Topic Modelling is one of the most prevalent text analysis technique used to explore and retrieve collection of documents. The evaluation of the topic model algorithms is still a very challenging tasks due to the absence of gold-standard…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Antonio Penta

We develop the multilingual topic model for unaligned text (MuTo), a probabilistic model of text that is designed to analyze corpora composed of documents in two languages. From these documents, MuTo uses stochastic EM to simultaneously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Jordan Boyd-Graber , David Blei

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

In this paper, we propose Precision-Informed Semantic Modeling (PRISM), a structured topic modeling framework combining the benefits of rich representations captured by LLMs with the low cost and interpretability of latent semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Connor Douglas , Utkucan Balci , Joseph Aylett-Bullock

Topic modeling is a branch of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that aims to organize large collections of texts into coherent groups according to word co-occurrence patterns, with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) remaining one of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alex Ding , Tarun Rapaka , Willy Rodriguez , Jason Yang

Topic modeling seeks to uncover latent semantic structure in text, with LDA providing a foundational probabilistic framework. While recent methods often incorporate external knowledge (e.g., pre-trained embeddings), such reliance limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tal Ishon , Yoav Goldberg , Uri Shaham

The CL-SciSumm 2016 shared task introduced an interesting problem: given a document D and a piece of text that cites D, how do we identify the text spans of D being referenced by the piece of text? The shared task provided the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Luis Moraes , Shahryar Baki , Rakesh Verma , Daniel Lee

The information explosion in the form of ETDs poses the challenge of management and extraction of appropriate knowledge for decision-making. Thus, the present study forwards a solution to the above problem by applying topic mining and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Manika Lamba

Distributed word representations have been demonstrated to be effective in capturing semantic and syntactic regularities. Unsupervised representation learning from large unlabeled corpora can learn similar representations for those words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Chunting Zhou , Chonglin Sun , Zhiyuan Liu , Francis C. M. Lau

Hierarchical topic modeling aims to discover latent topics from a corpus and organize them into a hierarchy to understand documents with desirable semantic granularity. However, existing work struggles with producing topic hierarchies of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Xiaobao Wu , Fengjun Pan , Thong Nguyen , Yichao Feng , Chaoqun Liu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu

The essential task of Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) is to organize a collection of news media into clusters of stories that pertain to the same real-world event. To apply TDT models to practical applications such as search engines and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Doug Beeferman , Hang Jiang

The logistic normal distribution has recently been adapted via the transformation of multivariate Gaus- sian variables to model the topical distribution of documents in the presence of correlations among topics. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-06 Xingchen Yu , Ernest Fokoue

Topic modeling is a technique for organizing and extracting themes from large collections of unstructured text. Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a common unsupervised approach that decomposes a term frequency-inverse document…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Selma Wanna , Ryan Barron , Nick Solovyev , Maksim E. Eren , Manish Bhattarai , Kim Rasmussen , Boian S. Alexandrov

Manually labeling documents is tedious and expensive, but it is essential for training a traditional text classifier. In recent years, a few dataless text classification techniques have been proposed to address this problem. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Daochen Zha , Chenliang Li