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LLM-based conversational systems have become a popular gateway for information access, yet most existing chatbots struggle to handle news-related trending queries effectively. To improve user experience, an effective trending query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Kaichun Wang , Yanguang Chen , Ting Zhang , Mengyao Bao , Keyu Chen , Xu Hu , Yongliang Wang , Jingsheng Yang , Jinsong Zhang , Fei Lu

We propose a novel document generation process based on hierarchical latent tree models (HLTMs) learned from data. An HLTM has a layer of observed word variables at the bottom and multiple layers of latent variables on top. For each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Peixian Chen , Zhourong Chen , Nevin L. Zhang

Topic modeling is an unsupervised method for revealing the hidden semantic structure of a corpus. It has been increasingly widely adopted as a tool in the social sciences, including political science, digital humanities and sociological…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Zheng Fang , Yulan He , Rob Procter

In the era of rapid technological advancement, social media platforms such as Twitter (X) have emerged as indispensable tools for gathering consumer insights, capturing diverse opinions, and understanding public attitudes. This research…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-23 S M Rakib Ul Karim , Rownak Ara Rasul , Tunazzina Sultana

We study the open-domain named entity recognition (NER) problem under distant supervision. The distant supervision, though does not require large amounts of manual annotations, yields highly incomplete and noisy distant labels via external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Chen Liang , Yue Yu , Haoming Jiang , Siawpeng Er , Ruijia Wang , Tuo Zhao , Chao Zhang

Offensive language detection is an ever-growing natural language processing (NLP) application. This growth is mainly because of the widespread usage of social networks, which becomes a mainstream channel for people to communicate, work, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ehab Hamdy

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

Responding to disease outbreaks requires close surveillance of their trajectories, but outbreak detection is hindered by the high noise in epidemic time series. Aggregating information across data sources has shown great denoising ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruiqi Lyu , Alistair Turcan , Bryan Wilder

Topic detection is a challenging task, especially without knowing the exact number of topics. In this paper, we present a novel approach based on neural network to detect topics in the micro-blogging dataset. We use an unsupervised neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Cong Wan , Shan Jiang , Cuirong Wang , Cong Wang , Changming Xu , Xianxia Chen , Ying Yuan

Understanding patient feedback is crucial for improving healthcare services, yet analyzing unlabeled short-text feedback presents challenges due to limited data and domain-specific nuances. Traditional supervised approaches require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 K M Sajjadul Islam , Ravi Teja Karri , Srujan Vegesna , Jiawei Wu , Praveen Madiraju

Customers' reviews and comments are important for businesses to understand users' sentiment about the products and services. However, this data needs to be analyzed to assess the sentiment associated with topics/aspects to provide efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Vasudeva Raju Sangaraju , Bharath Kumar Bolla , Deepak Kumar Nayak , Jyothsna Kh

Probabilistic topic models are widely used to discover latent topics in document collections, while latent feature vector representations of words have been used to obtain high performance in many NLP tasks. In this paper, we extend two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Richard Billingsley , Lan Du , Mark Johnson

The evaluation of recent embedding-based evaluation metrics for text generation is primarily based on measuring their correlation with human evaluations on standard benchmarks. However, these benchmarks are mostly from similar domains to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Doan Nam Long Vu , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Steffen Eger

Existing topic modeling and text segmentation methodologies generally require large datasets for training, limiting their capabilities when only small collections of text are available. In this work, we reexamine the inter-related problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Qiong Wu , Adam Hare , Sirui Wang , Yuwei Tu , Zhenming Liu , Christopher G. Brinton , Yanhua Li

We propose BERTScore, an automatic evaluation metric for text generation. Analogously to common metrics, BERTScore computes a similarity score for each token in the candidate sentence with each token in the reference sentence. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Tianyi Zhang , Varsha Kishore , Felix Wu , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Yoav Artzi

Topic models are a popular approach for extracting semantic information from large document collections. However, recent studies suggest that the topics generated by these models often do not align well with human intentions. Although…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Mayank Nagda , Phil Ostheimer , Sophie Fellenz

As the volume of unstructured text continues to grow across domains, there is an urgent need for scalable methods that enable interpretable organization, summarization, and retrieval of information. This work presents a unified framework…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Heba Shakeel , Tanvir Ahmad , Tanya Liyaqat , Chandni Saxena

Context information around words helps in determining their actual meaning, for example "networks" used in contexts of artificial neural networks or biological neuron networks. Generative topic models infer topic-word distributions, taking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Pankaj Gupta , Florian Buettner , Hinrich Schütze

Network data enriched with textual information, referred to as text networks, arise in a wide range of applications, including email communications, scientific collaborations, and legal contracts. In such settings, both the structure of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-09 Maoyu Zhang , Biao Cai , Dong Li , Xiaoyue Niu , Jingfei Zhang

Researchers must stay current in their fields by regularly reviewing academic literature, a task complicated by the daily publication of thousands of papers. Traditional multi-label text classification methods often ignore semantic…

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