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Models based on the transformer architecture, such as BERT, have marked a crucial step forward in the field of Natural Language Processing. Importantly, they allow the creation of word embeddings that capture important semantic information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jacob Turton , David Vinson , Robert Elliott Smith

Topic modeling is a key component in unsupervised learning, employed to identify topics within a corpus of textual data. The rapid growth of social media generates an ever-growing volume of textual data daily, making online topic modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Federica Granese , Benjamin Navet , Serena Villata , Charles Bouveyron

Many of the existing approaches for program comprehension rely on the linguistic information found in source code, such as identifier names and comments. Semantic clustering is one such technique for modularization of the system that relies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Amir Saeidi , Jurriaan Hage , Ravi Khadka , Slinger Jansen

Topic modeling is a widely used approach for analyzing and exploring large document collections. Recent research efforts have incorporated pre-trained contextualized language models, such as BERT embeddings, into topic modeling. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Suman Adhya , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Topic modeling is used for discovering latent semantic structure, usually referred to as topics, in a large collection of documents. The most widely used methods are Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Dimo Angelov

Most existing topic models rely on bag-of-words (BOW) representation, which limits their ability to capture word order information and leads to challenges with out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in new documents. Contextualized word embeddings,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zheng Fang , Yulan He , Rob Procter

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

Instead of mining coherent topics from a given text corpus in a completely unsupervised manner, seed-guided topic discovery methods leverage user-provided seed words to extract distinctive and coherent topics so that the mined topics can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Martin Michalski , Yucheng Jiang , Yu Meng , Jiawei Han

As we continue to collect and store textual data in a multitude of domains, we are regularly confronted with material whose largely unknown thematic structure we want to uncover. With unsupervised, exploratory analysis, no prior knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Samuel Rönnqvist

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 analyzes documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. For documents collected in sequence, dynamic topic models capture how these patterns vary over time. We develop the dynamic embedded topic model (D-ETM), a generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei

Topic models have been prevalent for decades with various applications. However, existing topic models commonly suffer from the notorious topic collapsing: discovered topics semantically collapse towards each other, leading to highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Xiaobao Wu , Xinshuai Dong , Thong Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu

We propose a Bayesian generative model for incorporating prior domain knowledge into hierarchical topic modeling. Although embedded topic models (ETMs) and its variants have gained promising performance in text analysis, they mainly focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Dongsheng Wang , Yishi Xu , Miaoge Li , Zhibin Duan , Chaojie Wang , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

The scientific world is changing at a rapid pace, with new technology being developed and new trends being set at an increasing frequency. This paper presents a framework for conducting scientific analyses of academic publications, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Trisha Singhal , Junhua Liu , Lucienne T. M. Blessing , Kwan Hui Lim

This article presents the results of investigations using topic modeling of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS408). Topic modeling is a set of computational methods which are used to identify clusters of subjects within text. We use latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Rachel Sterneck , Annie Polish , Claire Bowern

Word embeddings are substantially successful in capturing semantic relations among words. However, these lexical semantics are difficult to be interpreted. Definition modeling provides a more intuitive way to evaluate embeddings by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haitong Zhang , Yongping Du , Jiaxin Sun , Qingxiao Li

We consider probabilistic topic models and more recent word embedding techniques from a perspective of learning hidden semantic representations. Inspired by a striking similarity of the two approaches, we merge them and learn probabilistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Anna Potapenko , Artem Popov , Konstantin Vorontsov

Taxonomy construction is not only a fundamental task for semantic analysis of text corpora, but also an important step for applications such as information filtering, recommendation, and Web search. Existing pattern-based methods extract…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Chao Zhang , Fangbo Tao , Xiusi Chen , Jiaming Shen , Meng Jiang , Brian Sadler , Michelle Vanni , Jiawei Han

Topic models are valuable for understanding extensive document collections, but they don't always identify the most relevant topics. Classical probabilistic and anchor-based topic models offer interactive versions that allow users to guide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kyle Seelman , Mozhi Zhang , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Traditional topic models are effective at uncovering latent themes in large text collections. However, due to their reliance on bag-of-words representations, they struggle to capture semantically abstract features. While some neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Carolina Zheng , Nicolas Beltran-Velez , Sweta Karlekar , Claudia Shi , Achille Nazaret , Asif Mallik , Amir Feder , David M. Blei