Probabilistic topic models
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Surveying a suite of algorithms that offer a solution to managing large document archives.
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Topic models are a broad class of Bayesian generative models that encode problem-specific structure into an estimation of categories.
“Topic models are a broad class of Bayesian generative models that encode problem-specific structure into an estimation of categories (see Blei 2012 for a review).”
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- Authors
- Blei, D. M.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Blei, David M.
- ORCID
- Blei, David M.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2012-04
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 77-84
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2174706414
- Cited by
- 5,516
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 235.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Text and Document Classification Technologies
- Keywords
- probabilistic topic models, topic modeling, document archives, large-scale text analysis
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