Hierarchical topic modeling with nested hierarchical Dirichlet process |
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Authors: | Yi-qun Ding Shan-ping Li Zhen Zhang Bin Shen |
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Institution: | (1) School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China;(2) State Street Hangzhou, Hangzhou, 310000, China |
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Abstract: | This paper deals with the statistical modeling of latent topic hierarchies in text corpora. The height of the topic tree is assumed as fixed, while the number of topics on each level as unknown a priori and to be inferred from data. Taking a nonparametric Bayesian approach to this problem, we propose a new probabilistic generative model based on the nested hierarchical Dirichlet process (nHDP) and present a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm for the inference of the topic tree structure as welt as the word distribution of each topic and topic distribution of each document. Our theoretical analysis and experiment results show that this model can produce a more compact hierarchical topic structure and captures more free-grained topic relationships compared to the hierarchical latent Dirichlet allocation model. |
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Keywords: | Topic modeling Natural language processing Chinese restaurant process Hierarchical Dirichlet process Markovchain Monte Carlo Nonparametric Bayesian statistics |
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