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Topic modeling is a widely used technique for uncovering thematic structures from large text corpora. However, most topic modeling approaches e.g. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) struggle to capture nuanced semantics and contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Satya Kapoor , Alex Gil , Sreyoshi Bhaduri , Anshul Mittal , Rutu Mulkar

Topic models are probabilistic models for discovering topical themes in collections of documents. In real world applications, these models provide us with the means of organizing what would otherwise be unstructured collections. They can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Wesam Elshamy

It has been reported that clustering-based topic models, which cluster high-quality sentence embeddings with an appropriate word selection method, can generate better topics than generative probabilistic topic models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Leihang Zhang , Jiapeng Liu , Qiang Yan

Correlated topic modeling has been limited to small model and problem sizes due to their high computational cost and poor scaling. In this paper, we propose a new model which learns compact topic embeddings and captures topic correlations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Junxian He , Zhiting Hu , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Ying Huang , Eric P. Xing

Topic modeling is pivotal in discerning hidden semantic structures within texts, thereby generating meaningful descriptive keywords. While innovative techniques like BERTopic and Top2Vec have recently emerged in the forefront, they manifest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinche Zhang , Evangelos milios

Legacy procedures for topic modelling have generally suffered problems of overfitting and a weakness towards reconstructing sparse topic structures. With motivation from a consumer-generated corpora, this paper proposes semiparametric topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Dominic B. Dayta , Erniel B. Barrios

We present a token-level decision summarization framework that utilizes the latent topic structures of utterances to identify "summary-worthy" words. Concretely, a series of unsupervised topic models is explored and experimental results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Lu Wang , Claire Cardie

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

A high degree of topical diversity is often considered to be an important characteristic of interesting text documents. A recent proposal for measuring topical diversity identifies three elements for assessing diversity: words, topics, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Hosein Azarbonyad , Mostafa Dehghani , Tom Kenter , Maarten Marx , Jaap Kamps , Maarten de Rijke

This paper presents the results of the first application of BERTopic, a state-of-the-art topic modeling technique, to short text written in a morphologi-cally rich language. We applied BERTopic with three multilingual embed-ding models on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Darija Medvecki , Bojana Bašaragin , Adela Ljajić , Nikola Milošević

Social media platforms host discussions about a wide variety of topics that arise everyday. Making sense of all the content and organising it into categories is an arduous task. A common way to deal with this issue is relying on topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Dimosthenis Antypas , Asahi Ushio , Jose Camacho-Collados , Leonardo Neves , Vítor Silva , Francesco Barbieri

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

Pre-trained language models have led to a new state-of-the-art in many NLP tasks. However, for topic modeling, statistical generative models such as LDA are still prevalent, which do not easily allow incorporating contextual word vectors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Johannes Schneider

We propose a new algorithm for topic modeling, Vec2Topic, that identifies the main topics in a corpus using semantic information captured via high-dimensional distributed word embeddings. Our technique is unsupervised and generates a list…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Ramandeep S Randhawa , Parag Jain , Gagan Madan

The growing use of unstructured text in business research makes topic modeling a central tool for constructing explanatory variables from reviews, social media, and open-ended survey responses, yet existing approaches function poorly as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Stephan Ludwig , Peter J. Danaher , Xiaohao Yang

Topic modeling is a powerful technique to discover hidden topics and patterns within a collection of documents without prior knowledge. Traditional topic modeling and clustering-based techniques encounter challenges in capturing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Melkamu Abay Mersha , Mesay Gemeda yigezu , Jugal Kalita

Promoting participation on digital platforms such as Brasil Participativo has emerged as a top priority for governments worldwide. However, due to the sheer volume of contributions, much of this engagement goes underutilized, as organizing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ronivaldo Ferreira , Guilherme da Silva , Carla Rocha , Gustavo Pinto

Topic modeling seems to be almost synonymous with generating lists of top words to represent topics within large text corpora. However, deducing a topic from such list of individual terms can require substantial expertise and experience,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Arik Reuter , Bishnu Khadka , Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Sebastian Fischer , Benjamin Säfken

Topic models have a rich history with various applications and have recently been reinvigorated by neural topic modeling. However, these numerous topic models adopt totally distinct datasets, implementations, and evaluations. This impedes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Xiaobao Wu , Fengjun Pan , Anh Tuan Luu

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