TopicAdapt- An Inter-Corpora Topics Adaptation Approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces TopicAdapt, a neural topic model that effectively transfers relevant topics from a source corpus to a target corpus and discovers new topics, enhancing performance across diverse datasets.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel neural topic model, TopicAdapt, capable of inter-corpora topic adaptation and new topic discovery, addressing limitations of traditional models.

Findings

Outperforms state-of-the-art topic models on multiple datasets

Effectively transfers relevant topics between related corpora

Discovers new, corpus-specific topics

Abstract

Topic models are popular statistical tools for detecting latent semantic topics in a text corpus. They have been utilized in various applications across different fields. However, traditional topic models have some limitations, including insensitivity to user guidance, sensitivity to the amount and quality of data, and the inability to adapt learned topics from one corpus to another. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a neural topic model, TopicAdapt, that can adapt relevant topics from a related source corpus and also discover new topics in a target corpus that are absent in the source corpus. The proposed model offers a promising approach to improve topic modeling performance in practical scenarios. Experiments over multiple datasets from diverse domains show the superiority of the proposed model against the state-of-the-art topic models.