Automatic assignment of labels in Topic Modelling for Russian Corpora
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2016/07/0025/000284Keywords:
topic modelling, topic labelling, Russian corporaAbstract
The main goal of this paper was to improve topic modelling algorithms by introducing automatic topic labelling, a procedure which chooses a label for a cluster of words in a topic. Topic modelling is a widely used statistical technique which allows to reveal internal conceptual organization of text corpora. We have chosen an unsupervised graph-based method and elaborated it with regard to Russian. The proposed algorithm consists of two stages: candidate generation by means of PageRank and morphological filters, and candidate ranking. Our topic labelling experiments on a corpus of encyclopedic texts on linguistics has shown the advantages of labelled topic models for NLP applications.
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