TOPIC MODELING: WHY, AND HOW - Brown University · “A topic model is a type of statistical model...
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TOPIC MODELING: WHY, WHAT, AND HOW
@BrianCroxallBrown University
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WHY?WHAT? HOW?
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WHY?WHAT?
“A topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering theabstract ‘topics’ that occur in a collection of documents.”
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“A topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering the abstract ‘topics’ that occur in a collection of documents.”
Wikipedia
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1. Every word in a text belongs to a topic.
2. Every word in a text is generated from one of the topics thatmake up the text.
3. Each text is made up of all the topics you could ever find.
4.The computer does not need to know what the words mean.
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Topic Modeling ≈ LDALatent Dirichlet Allocation
EXAMPLES
MINING THE DISPATCHRobert Nelson
University of Richmond
MODELING PMLATed Underwood, University of Illinois
Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers University
QUANTIFYING KISSINGERMicki Kaufman, CUNY Graduate Center
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