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In the retrieval-based multi-turn dialogue modeling, it remains a challenge to select the most appropriate response according to extracting salient features in context utterances. As a conversation goes on, topic shift at discourse-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Yi Xu , Hai Zhao , Zhuosheng Zhang

Topic modeling has been a widely used tool for unsupervised text analysis. However, comprehensive evaluations of a topic model remain challenging. Existing evaluation methods are either less comparable across different models (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

Topic models are often used to identify human-interpretable topics to help make sense of large document collections. We use knowledge distillation to combine the best attributes of probabilistic topic models and pretrained transformers. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Alexander Hoyle , Pranav Goel , Philip Resnik

Topic modeling is a powerful technique for uncovering hidden themes within a collection of documents. However, the effectiveness of traditional topic models often relies on sufficient word co-occurrence, which is lacking in short texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Pritom Saha Akash , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Automatically associating social media posts with topics is an important prerequisite for effective search and recommendation on many social media platforms. However, topic classification of such posts is quite challenging because of (a) a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Vivek Kulkarni , Kenny Leung , Aria Haghighi

Topic drift is a common phenomenon in multi-turn dialogue. Therefore, an ideal dialogue generation models should be able to capture the topic information of each context, detect the relevant context, and produce appropriate responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Hainan Zhang , Yanyan Lan , Liang Pang , Hongshen Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin

As one of the prevalent topic mining tools, neural topic modeling has attracted a lot of interests for the advantages of high efficiency in training and strong generalisation abilities. However, due to the lack of context in each short…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jiachun Feng , Zusheng Zhang , Cheng Ding , Yanghui Rao , Haoran Xie

Data mining and knowledge discovery are essential aspects of extracting valuable insights from vast datasets. Neural topic models (NTMs) have emerged as a valuable unsupervised tool in this field. However, the predominant objective in NTMs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xin Gao , Yang Lin , Ruiqing Li , Yasha Wang , Xu Chu , Xinyu Ma , Hailong Yu

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

Topic models are widely used to analyze document collections. While they are valuable for discovering latent topics in a corpus when analysts are unfamiliar with the corpus, analysts also commonly start with an understanding of the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Garima Dhanania , Sheshera Mysore , Chau Minh Pham , Mohit Iyyer , Hamed Zamani , Andrew McCallum

Topic modeling is a fundamental task in natural language processing, allowing the discovery of latent thematic structures in text corpora. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in topic discovery, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Weijie Xu , Yuanyuan Qi , Jueqing Lu , Dinh Phung , Lan Du

Topic modeling is a popular method used to describe biological count data. With topic models, the user must specify the number of topics $K$. Since there is no definitive way to choose $K$ and since a true value might not exist, we develop…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-10 Julia Fukuyama , Kris Sankaran , Laura Symul

Extracting topics from text has become an essential task, especially with the rapid growth of unstructured textual data. Most existing works rely on highly computational methods to address this challenge. In this paper, we argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Salma Mekaoui , Hiba Sofyan , Imane Amaaz , Imane Benchrif , Arsalane Zarghili , Ilham Chaker , Nikola S. Nikolov

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

Topic modeling aims to produce interpretable topic representations and topic--document correspondences from corpora, but classical neural topic models (NTMs) remain constrained by limited representation assumptions and semantic abstraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xuan Xu , Zhongliang Yang , Haolun Li , Beilin Chu , Rui Tian , Yu Li , Shaolin Tan , Linna Zhou

In an era marked by a rapid increase in scientific publications, researchers grapple with the challenge of keeping pace with field-specific advances. We present the `AHAM' methodology and a metric that guides the domain-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Boshko Koloski , Nada Lavrač , Bojan Cestnik , Senja Pollak , Blaž Škrlj , Andrej Kastrin

Topic models uncover latent thematic structures in text corpora, yet evaluating their quality remains challenging, particularly in specialized domains. Existing methods often rely on automated metrics like topic coherence and diversity,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Thibault Prouteau , Francis Lareau , Nicolas Dugué , Jean-Charles Lamirel , Christophe Malaterre

Since the emergence of the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, relevant research has been published at a dazzling pace, which yields an abundant amount of big data in biomedical literature. Due to the high volum of relevant literature, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yeseul Jeon , Dongjun Chung , Jina Park , Ick Hoon Jin

We introduce CEMTM, a context-enhanced multimodal topic model designed to infer coherent and interpretable topic structures from both short and long documents containing text and images. CEMTM builds on fine-tuned large vision language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Amirhossein Abaskohi , Raymond Li , Chuyuan Li , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Topic modeling is a dominant method for exploring document collections on the web and in digital libraries. Recent approaches to topic modeling use pretrained contextualized language models and variational autoencoders. However, large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Suman Adhya , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal