Probabilistic topic models for text data retrieval and analysis

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Abstract

Text data include all kinds of natural language text such as web pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media posts. As text data continues to grow quickly, it is increasingly important to develop intelligent systems to help people manage and make use of vast amounts of text data ("big text datafi). As a new family of effective general approaches to text data retrieval and analysis, probabilistic topic models, notably Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA), Latent Dirichlet Allocations (LDA), and many extensions of them, have been studied actively in the past decade with widespread applications. These topic models are powerful tools for extracting and analyzing latent topics contained in text data; they also provide a general and robust latent semantic representation of text data, thus improving many applications in information retrieval and text mining. Since they are general and robust, they can be applied to text data in any natural language and about any topics. This tutorial systematically reviews the major research progress in probabilistic topic models and discuss their applications in text retrieval and text mining. The tutorial provides (1) an in-depth explanation of the basic concepts, underlying principles, and the two basic topic models (i.e., PLSA and LDA) that have widespread applications, (2) a broad overview of all the major representative topic models (that are usually extensions of PLSA or LDA), and (3) a discussion of major challenges and future research directions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1399-1401
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450350228
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 7 2017
Event40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017 - Tokyo, Shinjuku, Japan
Duration: Aug 7 2017Aug 11 2017

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Other

Other40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo, Shinjuku
Period8/7/178/11/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Software
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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