Methoden vergelijken

	Explainable Topic Modeling	Sentence Embeddings
Vakgebied	Deep learning	Deep learning
Familie	Machine learning	Machine learning
Jaar van ontstaan	2003–2020s	2015–2019
Grondlegger	Community practice (Blei et al. seminal; explainability extensions 2010s–present)	Kiros et al. (Skip-Thought, 2015); Reimers & Gurevych (Sentence-BERT, 2019)
Type	Unsupervised topic discovery + interpretability layer	Representation learning / embedding
Oorspronkelijke bron	Blei, D. M., Ng, A. Y., & Jordan, M. I. (2003). Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 993–1022.	Reimers, N., & Gurevych, I. (2019). Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 3980–3990.
Aliassen	XTM, interpretable topic modeling, transparent topic modeling, explainable LDA	sentence vectors, sentence representations, SBERT, semantic sentence encoding
Verwant	6	4
Samenvatting	Explainable Topic Modeling combines unsupervised topic discovery — such as LDA, NMF, or neural variants like BERTopic — with interpretability tools (top-word lists, coherence scores, SHAP, attention weights) that make the learned topics transparent, auditable, and communicable to domain experts and stakeholders beyond the modeling team.	Sentence Embeddings convert a sentence or short text into a single fixed-length dense vector that captures its semantic meaning. These vectors allow downstream tasks — semantic similarity, clustering, retrieval, and classification — to operate on numerical representations instead of raw text, making them one of the most versatile building blocks in modern NLP pipelines.