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Recent techniques for the task of short text clustering often rely on word embeddings as a transfer learning component. This paper shows that sentence vector representations from Transformers in conjunction with different clustering methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Leonid Pugachev , Mikhail Burtsev

Short text clustering is a challenging problem due to its sparseness of text representation. Here we propose a flexible Self-Taught Convolutional neural network framework for Short Text Clustering (dubbed STC^2), which can flexibly and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Jiaming Xu , Bo Xu , Peng Wang , Suncong Zheng , Guanhua Tian , Jun Zhao , Bo Xu

We propose a straightforward solution for detecting scarce topics in unbalanced short-text datasets. Our approach, named CWUTM (Topic model based on co-occurrence word networks for unbalanced short text datasets), Our approach addresses the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Chengjie Ma , Junping Du , Meiyu Liang , Zeli Guan

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

The Dirichlet Process Gaussian Mixture Model (DPGMM) is often used to cluster data when the number of clusters is unknown. One main DPGMM inference paradigm relies on sampling. Here we consider a known state-of-art sampler (proposed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Vlad Winter , Or Dinari , Oren Freifeld

In this paper we consider the problem of clustering collections of very short texts using subspace clustering. This problem arises in many applications such as product categorisation, fraud detection, and sentiment analysis. The main…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-29 Hankui Peng , Nicos Pavlidis , Idris Eckley , Ioannis Tsalamanis

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models by weak labels, which is receiving significant attention due to its low annotation cost. Existing approaches focus on generating pseudo labels for supervision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Linshan Wu , Zhun Zhong , Jiayi Ma , Yunchao Wei , Hao Chen , Leyuan Fang , Shutao Li

Clustering mixed data presents numerous challenges inherent to the very heterogeneous nature of the variables. A clustering algorithm should be able, despite of this heterogeneity, to extract discriminant pieces of information from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Robin Fuchs , Denys Pommeret , Cinzia Viroli

Levering data on social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, requires information retrieval algorithms to become able to relate very short text fragments to each other. Traditional text similarity methods such as tf-idf cosine-similarity,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Cedric De Boom , Steven Van Canneyt , Steven Bohez , Thomas Demeester , Bart Dhoedt

Passenger clustering based on trajectory records is essential for transportation operators. However, existing methods cannot easily cluster the passengers due to the hierarchical structure of the passenger trip information, including…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 Ziyue Li , Hao Yan , Chen Zhang , Lijun Sun , Wolfgang Ketter , Fugee Tsung

Distributional text clustering delivers semantically informative representations and captures the relevance between each word and semantic clustering centroids. We extend the neural text clustering approach to text classification tasks by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Yekun Chai , Haidong Zhang , Shuo Jin

Text clustering serves as a fundamental technique for organizing and interpreting unstructured textual data, particularly in contexts where manual annotation is prohibitively costly. With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Chen Huang , Guoxiu He

Short text stream clustering is an important but challenging task since massive amount of text is generated from different sources such as micro-blogging, question-answering, and social news aggregation websites. One of the major challenges…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Md Rashadul Hasan Rakib , Muhammad Asaduzzaman

Sentence embedding methods offer a powerful approach for working with short textual constructs or sequences of words. By representing sentences as dense numerical vectors, many natural language processing (NLP) applications have improved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yuan An , Alexander Kalinowski , Jane Greenberg

Mixtures of Unigrams are one of the simplest and most efficient tools for clustering textual data, as they assume that documents related to the same topic have similar distributions of terms, naturally described by Multinomials. When the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-10 Cinzia Viroli , Laura Anderlucci

The short text has been the prevalent format for information of Internet in recent decades, especially with the development of online social media, whose millions of users generate a vast number of short messages everyday. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Yuan Zuo , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu

Topic models, and more specifically the class of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), are widely used for probabilistic modeling of text. MCMC sampling from the posterior distribution is typically performed using a collapsed Gibbs sampler. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-16 Måns Magnusson , Leif Jonsson , Mattias Villani , David Broman

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

We investigate a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) with component means constrained in a pre-selected subspace. Applications to classification and clustering are explored. An EM-type estimation algorithm is derived. We prove that the subspace…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-27 Mu Qiao , Jia Li

The challenge of clustering short text data lies in balancing informativeness with interpretability. Traditional evaluation metrics often overlook this trade-off. Inspired by linguistic principles of communicative efficiency, this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Justin Miller , Tristram Alexander