Efficient keyword extraction for meaningful document perception
Proceedings of the 11th ACM symposium on Document engineering
Topic models can improve domain term extraction
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
A time-based collective factorization for topic discovery and monitoring in news
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web
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Topic detection (TD) is a fundamental research issue in the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) community with practical implications; TD helps analysts to separate the wheat from the chaff among the thousands of incoming news streams. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective topic detection model called the temporal Discriminative Probabilistic Model (DPM), which is shown to be theoretically equivalent to the classic vector space model with feature selection and temporally discriminative weights. We compare DPM to its various probabilistic cousins, ranging from mixture models like von-Mises Fisher (vMF) to mixed membership models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Benchmark results on the TDT3 data set show that sophisticated models, such as vMF and LDA, do not necessarily lead to better results; in the case of LDA, notably worst performance was obtained under variational inference, which is likely due to the significantly large number of LDA model parameters involved for document-level topic detection. On the contrary, using a relatively simple time-aware probabilistic model such as DPM suffices for both offline and online topic detection tasks, making DPM a theoretically elegant and effective model for practical topic detection.