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Unit-level models for survey data offer many advantages over their area-level counterparts, such as potential for more precise estimates and a natural benchmarking property. However two main challenges occur in this context: accounting for…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-18 Paul A. Parker , Scott H. Holan , Ryan Janicki

Besides the text content, documents and their associated words usually come with rich sets of meta informa- tion, such as categories of documents and semantic/syntactic features of words, like those encoded in word embeddings. Incorporating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-20 He Zhao , Lan Du , Wray Buntine , Gang Liu

Extracting and identifying latent topics in large text corpora has gained increasing importance in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most models, whether probabilistic models similar to Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or neural topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Anton Thielmann , Quentin Seifert , Arik Reuter , Elisabeth Bergherr , Benjamin Säfken

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

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

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

Probabilistic topic modeling is a popular and powerful family of tools for uncovering thematic structure in large sets of unstructured text documents. While much attention has been directed towards the modeling algorithms and their various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Samuel Rönnqvist , Xiaolu Wang , Peter Sarlin

Certain type of documents such as tweets are collected by specifying a set of keywords. As topics of interest change with time it is beneficial to adjust keywords dynamically. The challenge is that these need to be specified ahead of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-23 Xingyu Wang , Lida Zhang , Diego Klabjan

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

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

We present a novel method for hierarchical topic detection where topics are obtained by clustering documents in multiple ways. Specifically, we model document collections using a class of graphical models called hierarchical latent tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Peixian Chen , Nevin L. Zhang , Tengfei Liu , Leonard K. M. Poon , Zhourong Chen , Farhan Khawar

One of the challenges for text analysis in medical domains is analyzing large-scale medical documents. As a consequence, finding relevant documents has become more difficult. One of the popular methods to retrieve information based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Amir Karami , Aryya Gangopadhyay , Bin Zhou , Hadi Kharrazi

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

Comparative text mining extends from genre analysis and political bias detection to the revelation of cultural and geographic differences, through to the search for prior art across patents and scientific papers. These applications use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Julian Risch , Ralf Krestel

Topic modeling analyzes documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. However, existing topic models fail to learn interpretable topics when working with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. To this end, we develop the Embedded Topic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei

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

To unfold the tremendous amount of multimedia data uploaded daily to social media platforms, effective topic modeling techniques are needed. Existing work tends to apply topic models on written text datasets. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Lukas Stappen , Jason Thies , Gerhard Hagerer , Björn W. Schuller , Georg Groh

Recently there has been significant activity in developing algorithms with provable guarantees for topic modeling. In standard topic models, a topic (such as sports, business, or politics) is viewed as a probability distribution $\vec a_i$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Avrim Blum , Nika Haghtalab

In this article, we investigate the use of a probabilistic model for unsupervised clustering in text collections. Unsupervised clustering has become a basic module for many intelligent text processing applications, such as information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Loïs Rigouste , Olivier Cappé , François Yvon

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 distributions for assessing the diversity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Hosein Azarbonyad , Mostafa Dehghani , Tom Kenter , Maarten Marx , Jaap Kamps , Maarten de Rijke