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48 results for topic analysis

The paper investigates topic models, ensuring their statistical identifiability and accuracy.

problem Lack of formal theoretical investigation of topic model identifiability and estimation accuracy.
method Proposes a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) based on integrated likelihood, introducing new geometric identifiability conditions.
result Introduces weaker conditions for topic model identifiability, allowing a broader investigation.

Study uses topic modeling and sentiment analysis to uncover hedge fund performance insights.

problem Hedge fund opacity and limited disclosure make them hard to analyze.
method Applied topic modeling and sentiment analysis to hedge fund documents using DistilBERT and Top2Vec.
result Automated topic modeling and sentiment analysis can predict hedge fund performance.

AOBTM adapts online topic modeling for short app reviews, revealing coherent topics over time.

problem Challenges in inferring latent topics from short, dynamic app reviews over multiple versions.
method Adaptive Online Biterm Topic Model (AOBTM) that addresses sparsity and considers statistical data from previous versions.
result AOBTM finds more coherent topics and outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

Bibliographic analysis considers author's research areas, the citation network and paper content among other things. In this paper, we combine these three in a topic model that produces a bibliographic model of authors, topics and documents using a non-parametric extension of a combination of the Poisson mixed-topic li…

2016-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

A new neural topic model using optimal transport improves document representation and topic coherence.

problem Challenges in achieving good document representation and coherent/diverse topics in existing NTMs.
method Proposes a neural topic model via optimal transport, learning topic distribution by minimising OT distance to document word distributions.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art NTMs on discovering coherent and diverse topics.

This paper improves topic modeling by embedding words and topics together.

problem Topic models struggle with short documents and approximate inference.
method Model each document as a mixture of word embeddings and each topic as a mixture of topic embeddings.
result The method optimizes topic embeddings to minimize semantic differences between words and topics.

Top2Vec finds topic vectors from documents and words without needing stop words or custom settings.

problem Topic modeling weaknesses, including needing known topics, stop words, and custom settings.
method Joint document and word semantic embedding to find topic vectors automatically.
result Top2Vec finds more informative and representative topics than probabilistic models.

Detects changes in topic proportions over time in large text datasets.

problem Unsupervised detection of structural changes in topic distributions over time.
method Specialised temporal topic model with changepoint detection, approximate inference using sample splitting and likelihood ratio statistic.
result Automated detection of changepoints in topic proportions, facilitating interpretable results.

Social network analysis (SNA), which is a research field describing and modeling the social connection of a certain group of people, is popular among network services. Our topic words analysis project is a SNA method to visualize the topic words among emails from Obama.com to accounts registered in Columbus, Ohio. Base…

2014-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Topic models have achieved significant successes in analyzing large-scale text corpus. In practical applications, we are always confronted with the challenge of model selection, i.e., how to appropriately set the number of topics. Following recent advances in topic model inference via tensor decomposition, we make a fi…

2014-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose new algorithms for topic modeling when the number of topics is unknown. Our approach relies on an analysis of the concentration of mass and angular geometry of the topic simplex, a convex polytope constructed by taking the convex hull of vertices representing the latent topics. Our algorithms are shown in pr…

2017-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

BERTopic enhances stock market prediction by analyzing sentiment in topic models.

problem Improving stock price prediction accuracy using sentiment analysis.
method Employed BERTopic for sentiment analysis of stock market comments integrated with deep learning models.
result Enhanced model performance through topic sentiment integration.

Hierarchical latent tree analysis (HLTA) is recently proposed as a new method for topic detection. It differs fundamentally from the LDA-based methods in terms of topic definition, topic-document relationship, and learning method. It has been shown to discover significantly more coherent topics and better topic hierarc…

2015-08-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Multi-modal data collections, such as corpora of paired images and text snippets, require analysis methods beyond single-view component and topic models. For continuous observations the current dominant approach is based on extensions of canonical correlation analysis, factorizing the variation into components shared b…

2012-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

nnLDA combines neural and probabilistic methods for better topic modeling with side information.

problem Lack of integration of auxiliary information in traditional topic models.
method nnLDA integrates side information through a neural prior mechanism, optimizing both neural and probabilistic components.
result nnLDA outperforms traditional models in topic coherence, perplexity, and classification.

BERTopic improves financial text analysis with FinTextSim's contextual embeddings.

problem Analyzing financial text data for insights and predictions.
method Integrates BERTopic with FinTextSim for topic modeling and clustering.
result BERTopic performs better with FinTextSim's embeddings, improving topic clarity and reducing misclassification.

Paper proposes a Renyi entropy-based method for tuning hierarchical topic models.

problem Tuning hierarchical topic models, especially determining the number of topics at each level, is challenging.
method The paper introduces a Renyi entropy-based metric for quality assessment and a practical tuning concept.
result The proposed method can estimate the number of topics for two hierarchical levels in hARTM model.

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 deal with the above problems, we propose a polynomial-time deep topic model with…

2019-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

FACTM combines FA with correlated topic modeling for structured data integration.

problem Integrating structured data modalities like text and single cell sequencing.
method Bayesian FACTM model combining FA and correlated topic modeling with variational inference.
result FACTM outperforms other methods in identifying clusters in structured data and integrating them with simple modalities.

Hybrid approach combines topic and graph embeddings for legal document clustering.

problem Challenges in classifying legal texts due to domain-specific language and limited labeled data.
method Combines unsupervised topic and graph embeddings with a supervised model.
result Improves clustering quality over text-only or graph-only embeddings.

This study investigates the content of the published scientific literature in the fields of operations research and management science (OR/MS) since the early 1950s. Our study is based on 80,757 published journal abstracts from 37 of the leading OR/MS journals. We have developed a topic model, using Latent Dirichlet Al…

2015-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The majority of medical documents and electronic health records (EHRs) are in text format that poses a challenge for data processing and finding relevant documents. Looking for ways to automatically retrieve the enormous amount of health and medical knowledge has always been an intriguing topic. Powerful methods have b…

2017-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Topic models provide a useful method for dimensionality reduction and exploratory data analysis in large text corpora. Most approaches to topic model inference have been based on a maximum likelihood objective. Efficient algorithms exist that approximate this objective, but they have no provable guarantees. Recently, a…

2012-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural model predicts survival outcomes and reveals feature relationships.

problem Predicting time-to-event outcomes and understanding feature relationships in clinical data.
method Survival and topic modeling combined in a neural network framework.
result Neural survival-supervised topic models achieve competitive accuracy with interpretability.

This paper deals with various topics in analysis on hyperbolic spaces. It surveys some recent progress in non-Euclidean Fourier Analysis and proves some new results for the geodesic Radon transform on hyperbolic spaces.

2004-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey on reproducibility and distortion issues in text clustering and topic modeling.

problem Reproducibility and misleading cluster geometry in unsupervised learning for text categorization.
method Systematic literature review of text clustering and topic modeling from 2011-2022.
result Outliers and initialization issues are significant factors in text clustering and topic modeling.

Social media analytics allows us to extract, analyze, and establish semantic from user-generated contents in social media platforms. This study utilized a mixed method including a three-step process of data collection, topic modeling, and data annotation for recognizing exercise related patterns. Based on the findings,…

2018-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

In dynamic topic modeling, the proportional contribution of a topic to a document depends on the temporal dynamics of that topic's overall prevalence in the corpus. We extend the Dynamic Topic Model of Blei and Lafferty (2006) by explicitly modeling document level topic proportions with covariates and dynamic structure…

2015-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

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 collection of documents. Despite their success --- in particular of its most widely us…

2017-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Study investigates micro-event detection on FLOSS version releases from Stack Overflow.

problem Detecting micro-events in FLOSS version release events from textual messages.
method Developed pipelines using LDA topic modeling, hSBM topics, and sentiment analysis; optimized feature spaces with RFECV; evaluated models with statistical analysis.
result Found characteristic changes in topics or sentiment features before or after FLOSS version releases.

Topic models have become popular tools for dimension reduction and exploratory analysis of text data which consists in observed frequencies of a vocabulary of pp words in nn documents, stored in a p×np\times n matrix. The main premise is that the mean of this data matrix can be factorized into a product of two non-neg…

2020-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a flexible deep autoencoding topic model with scalable hybrid Bayesian inference.

problem Flexible and interpretable document analysis models.
method DATM with hybrid Bayesian inference, including topic-layer-adaptive stochastic gradient Riemannian MCMC and Weibull variational encoder.
result Demonstrates scalability and efficacy on big corpora in unsupervised and supervised learning tasks.

The problem of topic modeling can be seen as a generalization of the clustering problem, in that it posits that observations are generated due to multiple latent factors (e.g., the words in each document are generated as a mixture of several active topics, as opposed to just one). This increased representational power …

2012-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗