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Weakly Supervised Topic Modeling

Weakly supervised topic modeling incorporates lightweight domain knowledge — typically seed words or soft constraints — into a probabilistic topic model to steer discovered topics toward researcher-meaningful themes. It sits between fully unsupervised LDA and supervised classifiers, requiring far less annotation than the latter while producing more interpretable and domain-aligned topics than the former.

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Weakly Supervised Topic Modeling (Seed-Guided / Constrained Topic Models)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / deep-learning
  • Jagarlamudi, J., Daume III, H., & Udupa, R. (2012). Incorporating Lexical Priors into Topic Models. Proceedings of EACL 2012, 204–213. · URL
  • Gallagher, R. J., Reing, K., Kale, D., & Ver Steeg, G. (2017). Anchored Correlation Explanation: Topic Modeling with Minimal Domain Knowledge. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5, 529–542. · DOI 10.1162/tacl_a_00078
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Taxonomic bucketBERT-based Classificationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketLDA Topic Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketNMF Topic Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSemi-supervised Topic Modelingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketTopic Modelingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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