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Word embedding maps words into a low-dimensional continuous embedding space by exploiting the local word collocation patterns in a small context window. On the other hand, topic modeling maps documents onto a low-dimensional topic space, by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Shaohua Li , Tat-Seng Chua , Jun Zhu , Chunyan Miao

Topic modeling analyzes a collection of documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. However, previous topic models consider only the spelling of words and do not take into consideration the homography of words. In this study, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Takashi Shibuya , Takehito Utsuro

Topic taxonomy discovery aims at uncovering topics of different abstraction levels and constructing hierarchical relations between them. Unfortunately, most of prior work can hardly model semantic scopes of words and topics by holding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yuyin Lu , Hegang Chen , Pengbo Mao , Yanghui Rao , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Qing Li

Inspired by the notion of Center of Mass in physics, an extension called Semantic Center of Mass (SCOM) is proposed, and used to discover the abstract "topic" of a document. The notion is under a framework model called Understanding Map…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Gangli Liu

Topic models have been extensively used to organize and interpret the contents of large, unstructured corpora of text documents. Although topic models often perform well on traditional training vs. test set evaluations, it is often the case…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Kelsey MacMillan , James D. Wilson

The explosive growth of textual data over time presents a significant challenge in uncovering evolving themes and trends. Existing dynamic topic modeling techniques, while powerful, often exist in fragmented pipelines that lack robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Suman Adhya , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Qualitative research is an approach to understanding social phenomenon based around human interpretation of data, particularly text. Probabilistic topic modelling is a machine learning approach that is also based around the analysis of text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Marco Gillies , Dhiraj Murthy , Harry Brenton , Rapheal Olaniyan

In text classification tasks, fine tuning pretrained language models like BERT and GPT-3 yields competitive accuracy; however, both methods require pretraining on large text datasets. In contrast, general topic modeling methods possess the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Weijie Xu , Xiaoyu Jiang , Jay Desai , Bin Han , Fuqin Yan , Francis Iannacci

Topic models provide a useful text-mining tool for learning, extracting, and discovering latent structures in large text corpora. Although a plethora of methods have been proposed for topic modeling, lacking in the literature is a formal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-12 Yinyin Chen , Shishuang He , Yun Yang , Feng Liang

Recent research in opinion mining proposed word embedding-based topic modeling methods that provide superior coherence compared to traditional topic modeling. In this paper, we demonstrate how these methods can be used to display correlated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Gerhard Johann Hagerer , Martin Kirchhoff , Hannah Danner , Robert Pesch , Mainak Ghosh , Archishman Roy , Jiaxi Zhao , Georg Groh

Social scientists analyze citation networks to study how documents influence subsequent work across various domains such as judicial politics and international relations. However, conventional approaches that summarize document attributes…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-26 ByungKoo Kim , Saki Kuzushima , Yuki Shiraito

Topic models are widely used analysis techniques for clustering documents and surfacing thematic elements of text corpora. These models remain challenging to optimize and often require a "human-in-the-loop" approach where domain experts use…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Anamaria Crisan , Michael Correll

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

We propose an Exclusive Topic Modeling (ETM) for unsupervised text classification, which is able to 1) identify the field-specific keywords though less frequently appeared and 2) deliver well-structured topics with exclusive words. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-09 Hao Lei , Ying Chen

Probabilistic topic models are a powerful tool for extracting latent themes from large text datasets. In many text datasets, we also observe per-document covariates (e.g., source, style, political affiliation) that act as environments that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dominic Sobhani , Amir Feder , David Blei

Most real-world document collections involve various types of metadata, such as author, source, and date, and yet the most commonly-used approaches to modeling text corpora ignore this information. While specialized models have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-25 Dallas Card , Chenhao Tan , Noah A. Smith

There is an escalating need for methods to identify latent patterns in text data from many domains. We introduce a new method to identify topics in a corpus and represent documents as topic sequences. Discourse Atom Topic Modeling draws on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Alina Arseniev-Koehler , Susan D. Cochran , Vickie M. Mays , Kai-Wei Chang , Jacob Gates Foster

We propose a Concentrated Document Topic Model(CDTM) for unsupervised text classification, which is able to produce a concentrated and sparse document topic distribution. In particular, an exponential entropy penalty is imposed on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-10 Hao Lei , Ying Chen

A key challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is effectively integrating information from multiple sources while maintaining coherence and topical relevance. While Large Language Models have shown impressive results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Chuyuan Li , Austin Xu , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

The emerging neural topic models make topic modeling more easily adaptable and extendable in unsupervised text mining. However, the existing neural topic models is difficult to retain representative information of the documents within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Kang Xu , Xiaoqiu Lu , Yuan-fang Li , Tongtong Wu , Guilin Qi , Ning Ye , Dong Wang , Zheng Zhou