Exploring Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Dirichlet Priors for Latent Dirichlet Allocation

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 399-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaheen Syed ◽  
Marco Spruit
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Topic Distribution ◽  
Dirichlet Priors ◽  
Abstract Data ◽  
Scientific Research Articles ◽  
Topic Word ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has gained much attention from researchers and is increasingly being applied to uncover underlying semantic structures from a variety of corpora. However, nearly all researchers use symmetrical Dirichlet priors, often unaware of the underlying practical implications that they bear. This research is the first to explore symmetrical and asymmetrical Dirichlet priors on topic coherence and human topic ranking when uncovering latent semantic structures from scientific research articles. More specifically, we examine the practical effects of several classes of Dirichlet priors on 2000 LDA models created from abstract and full-text research articles. Our results show that symmetrical or asymmetrical priors on the document–topic distribution or the topic–word distribution for full-text data have little effect on topic coherence scores and human topic ranking. In contrast, asymmetrical priors on the document–topic distribution for abstract data show a significant increase in topic coherence scores and improved human topic ranking compared to a symmetrical prior. Symmetrical or asymmetrical priors on the topic–word distribution show no real benefits for both abstract and full-text data.

scholarly journals A Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Fuzzy Clustering Based Machine Learning Model for Text Thesaurus

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Luo ◽  
Dongwen Yu ◽  
Zong Dai
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Fuzzy Clustering ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Machine Learning Model ◽  
N Gram ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

It is not quite possible to use manual methods to process the huge amount of structured and semi-structured data. This study aims to solve the problem of processing huge data through machine learning algorithms. We collected the text data of the company’s public opinion through crawlers, and use Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm to extract the keywords of the text, and uses fuzzy clustering to cluster the keywords to form different topics. The topic keywords will be used as a seed dictionary for new word discovery. In order to verify the efficiency of machine learning in new word discovery, algorithms based on association rules, N-Gram, PMI, andWord2vec were used for comparative testing of new word discovery. The experimental results show that the Word2vec algorithm based on machine learning model has the highest accuracy, recall and F-value indicators.

scholarly journals A Comparative Automated Text Analysis of Airbnb Reviews in Hong Kong and Singapore Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiattipoom Kiatkawsin ◽  
Ian Sutherland ◽  
Jin-Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Optimal Number ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Customer Reviews ◽  
Gaining Insight ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Airbnb has emerged as a platform where unique accommodation options can be found. Due to the uniqueness of each accommodation unit and host combination, each listing offers a one-of-a-kind experience. As consumers increasingly rely on text reviews of other customers, managers are also increasingly gaining insight from customer reviews. Thus, this present study aimed to extract those insights from reviews using latent Dirichlet allocation, an unsupervised type of topic modeling that extracts latent discussion topics from text data. Findings of Hong Kong’s 185,695 and Singapore’s 93,571 Airbnb reviews, two long-term rival destinations, were compared. Hong Kong produced 12 total topics that can be categorized into four distinct groups whereas Singapore’s optimal number of topics was only five. Topics produced from both destinations covered the same range of attributes, but Hong Kong’s 12 topics provide a greater degree of precision to formulate managerial recommendations. While many topics are similar to established hotel attributes, topics related to the host and listing management are unique to the Airbnb experience. The findings also revealed keywords used when evaluating the experience that provide more insight beyond typical numeric ratings.

Ldagibbs: A Command for Topic Modeling in Stata Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Probability Distribution ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Topic Models ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

In this article, I introduce the ldagibbs command, which implements latent Dirichlet allocation in Stata. Latent Dirichlet allocation is the most popular machine-learning topic model. Topic models automatically cluster text documents into a user-chosen number of topics. Latent Dirichlet allocation represents each document as a probability distribution over topics and represents each topic as a probability distribution over words. Therefore, latent Dirichlet allocation provides a way to analyze the content of large unclassified text data and an alternative to predefined document classifications.

scholarly journals Klasifikasi Laporan Keluhan Pelayanan Publik Berdasarkan Instansi Menggunakan Metode LDA-SVM

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1265
Author(s):  
Muhammad Alkaff ◽  
Andreyan Rizky Baskara ◽  
Irham Maulani
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Confusion Matrix ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Topic Distribution ◽  
The Government ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

<p>Sebuah sistem layanan untuk menyampaikan aspirasi dan keluhan masyarakat terhadap layanan pemerintah Indonesia, bernama Lapor! Pemerintah sudah lama memanfaatkan sistem tersebut untuk menjawab permasalahan masyarakat Indonesia terkait permasalahan birokrasi. Namun, peningkatan volume laporan dan pemilahan laporan yang dilakukan oleh operator dengan membaca setiap keluhan yang masuk melalui sistem menyebabkan sering terjadi kesalahan dimana operator meneruskan laporan tersebut ke instansi yang salah. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan suatu solusi yang dapat menentukan konteks laporan secara otomatis dengan menggunakan teknik Natural Language Processing. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membangun klasifikasi laporan secara otomatis berdasarkan topik laporan yang ditujukan kepada instansi yang berwenang dengan menggabungkan metode Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) dan Support Vector Machine (SVM). Proses pemodelan topik untuk setiap laporan dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode LDA. Metode ini mengekstrak laporan untuk menemukan pola tertentu dalam dokumen yang akan menghasilkan keluaran dalam nilai distribusi topik. Selanjutnya, proses klasifikasi untuk menentukan laporan agensi tujuan dilakukan dengan menggunakan SVM berdasarkan nilai topik yang diekstraksi dengan metode LDA. Performa model LDA-SVM diukur dengan menggunakan confusion matrix dengan menghitung nilai akurasi, presisi, recall, dan F1 Score. Hasil pengujian menggunakan teknik split train-test dengan skor 70:30 menunjukkan bahwa model menghasilkan kinerja yang baik dengan akurasi 79,85%, presisi 79,98%, recall 72,37%, dan Skor F1 74,67%.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Abstract</strong></em></p><p><em>A service system to convey aspirations and complaints from the public against Indonesia's government services, named Lapor! The Government has used the Government for a long time to answer the problems of the Indonesian people related to bureaucratic problems. However, the increasing volume of reports and the sorting of reports carried out by operators by reading every complaint that comes through the system cause frequent errors where operators forward the reports to the wrong agencies. Therefore, we need a solution that can automatically determine the report's context using Natural Language Processing techniques. This study aims to build automatic report classifications based on report topics addressed to authorized agencies by combining Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The topic-modeling process for each report was carried out using the LDA method. This method extracts reports to find specific patterns in documents that will produce output in topic distribution values. Furthermore, the classification process to determine the report's destination agency carried out using the SVM based on the value of the topics extracted by the LDA method. The LDA-SVM model's performance is measured using a confusion matrix by calculating the value of accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 Score. The test results using the train-test split technique with a 70:30 show that the model produces good performance with 79.85% accuracy, 79.98% precision, 72.37% recall, and 74.67% F1 Score</em></p><p><em><strong><br /></strong></em></p>

iLDA: An interactive latent Dirichlet allocation model to improve topic quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yezheng Liu ◽  
Fei Du ◽  
Jianshan Sun ◽  
Yuanchun Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Allocation Model ◽  
Subjective Knowledge ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model ◽  
User Interests ◽  
Weighted Sum Method ◽  
Topic Word ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

User-generated content has been an increasingly important data source for analysing user interests in both industries and academic research. Since the proposal of the basic latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model, plenty of LDA variants have been developed to learn knowledge from unstructured user-generated contents. An intractable limitation for LDA and its variants is that low-quality topics whose meanings are confusing may be generated. To handle this problem, this article proposes an interactive strategy to generate high-quality topics with clear meanings by integrating subjective knowledge derived from human experts and objective knowledge learned by LDA. The proposed interactive latent Dirichlet allocation (iLDA) model develops deterministic and stochastic approaches to obtain subjective topic-word distribution from human experts, combines the subjective and objective topic-word distributions by a linear weighted-sum method, and provides the inference process to draw topics and words from a comprehensive topic-word distribution. The proposed model is a significant effort to integrate human knowledge with LDA-based models by interactive strategy. The experiments on two real-world corpora show that the proposed iLDA model can draw high-quality topics with the assistance of subjective knowledge from human experts. It is robust under various conditions and offers fundamental supports for the applications of LDA-based topic modelling.

scholarly journals Federated Latent Dirichlet Allocation: A Local Differential Privacy Based Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 6283-6290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yansheng Wang ◽  
Yongxin Tong ◽  
Dingyuan Shi
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Differential Privacy ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Data Collector ◽  
Industrial Grade ◽  
Model Training ◽  
Open Datasets ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a widely adopted topic model for industrial-grade text mining applications. However, its performance heavily relies on the collection of large amount of text data from users' everyday life for model training. Such data collection risks severe privacy leakage if the data collector is untrustworthy. To protect text data privacy while allowing accurate model training, we investigate federated learning of LDA models. That is, the model is collaboratively trained between an untrustworthy data collector and multiple users, where raw text data of each user are stored locally and not uploaded to the data collector. To this end, we propose FedLDA, a local differential privacy (LDP) based framework for federated learning of LDA models. Central in FedLDA is a novel LDP mechanism called Random Response with Priori (RRP), which provides theoretical guarantees on both data privacy and model accuracy. We also design techniques to reduce the communication cost between the data collector and the users during model training. Extensive experiments on three open datasets verified the effectiveness of our solution.

scholarly journals Database “Pro-family (pronatalist) communities in the social network VKontakte”

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-130
Author(s):  
Irina E. Kalabikhina ◽  
Evgeny P. Banin
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Graph Structure ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Structure Of Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

The database contains uploading text comments from the social network VKontakte in .csv format (UTF-8 encoding). The comments are collected from communities discussing pregnancy, childhood, motherhood, etc. Uploading contains comments to posts with which the interaction took place. The absolute number of likes was used as a criterion (comments were collected where the number of likes is greater than or equal to 5). Text data was pre-processed (stemmization and lemmatization). The data is suitable for thematic analysis (e.g. LDA – Latent Dirichlet Allocation), for modelling the graph structure of communities (the link_comment variable contains a unique post identifier, link_author contains a unique user identifier), for analysis of tonalities of statements and formation of a dictionary of demographic connotation in Russian. Analysis of the tonalities of statements enables measuring the dynamics of “demographic temperature” in pro-family (pronatalist) communities.

scholarly journals Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Text Mining Techniques for Understanding Medical Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 506-512
Author(s):  
Saadat M. Alhashmi ◽  
Mohammed Maree ◽  
Zaina Saadeddin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Drug Analysis ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Dirichlet Allocation

Over the past few years, numerous studies and research articles have been published in the medical literature review domain. The topics covered by these researches included medical information retrieval, disease statistics, drug analysis, and many other fields and application domains. In this paper, we employ various text mining and data analysis techniques in an attempt to discover trending topics and topic concordance in the healthcare literature and data mining field. This analysis focuses on healthcare literature and bibliometric data and word association rules applied to 1945 research articles that had been published between the years 2006 and 2019. Our aim in this context is to assist saving time and effort required for manually summarizing large-scale amounts of information in such a broad and multi-disciplinary domain. To carry out this task, we employ topic modeling techniques through the utilization of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), in addition to various document and word embedding and clustering approaches. Findings reveal that since 2010 the interest in the healthcare big data analysis has increased significantly, as demonstrated by the five most commonly used topics in this domain.

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