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One of the main computational and scientific challenges in the modern age is to extract useful information from unstructured texts. Topic models are one popular machine-learning approach which infers the latent topical structure of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-20 Martin Gerlach , Tiago P. Peixoto , Eduardo G. Altmann

Topic modeling is widely studied for the dimension reduction and analysis of documents. However, it is formulated as a difficult optimization problem. Current approximate solutions also suffer from inaccurate model- or data-assumptions. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Jianyu Wang , Xiao-Lei Zhang

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

The recent advancement of large language models has spurred a growing trend of integrating pre-trained language model (PLM) embeddings into topic models, fundamentally reshaping how topics capture semantic structure. Classical models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanlin Xiao , Mauricio A. Álvarez , Rainer Breitling

Topic modelling is a pivotal unsupervised machine learning technique for extracting valuable insights from large document collections. Existing neural topic modelling methods often encode contextual information of documents, while ignoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Yanan Ma , Chenghao Xiao , Chenhan Yuan , Sabine N van der Veer , Lamiece Hassan , Chenghua Lin , Goran Nenadic

As electronically stored data grow in daily life, obtaining novel and relevant information becomes challenging in text mining. Thus people have sought statistical methods based on term frequency, matrix algebra, or topic modeling for text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Clint P. George , Wei Xia , George Michailidis

The logistic normal distribution has recently been adapted via the transformation of multivariate Gaus- sian variables to model the topical distribution of documents in the presence of correlations among topics. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-06 Xingchen Yu , Ernest Fokoue

We propose a multi-scale hybridized topic modeling method to find hidden topics from transcribed interviews more accurately and efficiently than traditional topic modeling methods. Our multi-scale hybridized topic modeling method (MSHTM)…

As the emergence and the thriving development of social networks, a huge number of short texts are accumulated and need to be processed. Inferring latent topics of collected short texts is useful for understanding its hidden structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-04 Zhenghang Cui , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

Neural topic models can successfully find coherent and diverse topics in textual data. However, they are limited in dealing with multimodal datasets (e.g., images and text). This paper presents the first systematic and comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Felipe González-Pizarro , Giuseppe Carenini

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

This study explores the use of Large language models to analyze therapist remarks in a psychotherapeutic setting. The paper focuses on the application of BERTopic, a machine learning-based topic modeling tool, to the dialogue of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Alexander Vanin , Vadim Bolshev , Anastasia Panfilova

Topic modeling is frequently being used for analysing large text corpora such as news articles or social media data. BERTopic, consisting of sentence embedding, dimension reduction, clustering, and topic extraction, is the newest and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Karla Schäfer , Jeong-Eun Choi , Inna Vogel , Martin Steinebach

Inferring topics from the overwhelming amount of short texts becomes a critical but challenging task for many content analysis tasks, such as content charactering, user interest profiling, and emerging topic detecting. Existing methods such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jipeng Qiang , Ping Chen , Tong Wang , Xindong Wu

Social media constitutes a rich and influential source of information for qualitative researchers. Although computational techniques like topic modelling assist with managing the volume and diversity of social media content, qualitative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Amandeep Kaur , James R. Wallace

We proposed a novel multilayer correlated topic model (MCTM) to analyze how the main ideas inherit and vary between a document and its different segments, which helps understand an article's structure. The variational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Ye Tian

The objective of advanced topic modeling is not only to explore latent topical structures, but also to estimate relationships between the discovered topics and theoretically relevant metadata. Methods used to estimate such relationships…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 P. Schulze , S. Wiegrebe , P. W. Thurner , C. Heumann , M. Aßenmacher

Cross-lingual topic modeling aims to uncover shared semantic themes across languages. Several methods have been proposed to address this problem, leveraging both traditional and neural approaches. While previous methods have achieved some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Tien Phat Nguyen , Vu Minh Ngo , Tung Nguyen , Linh Van Ngo , Duc Anh Nguyen , Sang Dinh , Trung Le

Topic modeling is a well-established technique for exploring text corpora. Conventional topic models (e.g., LDA) represent topics as bags of words that often require "reading the tea leaves" to interpret; additionally, they offer users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chau Minh Pham , Alexander Hoyle , Simeng Sun , Philip Resnik , Mohit Iyyer

This paper presents an algorithmic family of dynamic topic models called Aligned Neural Topic Models (ANTM), which combine novel data mining algorithms to provide a modular framework for discovering evolving topics. ANTM maintains the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hamed Rahimi , Hubert Naacke , Camelia Constantin , Bernd Amann