More Than Words: Collocation Tokenization for Latent Dirichlet Allocation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10755v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:08:19 GMT
• Title: More Than Words: Collocation Tokenization for Latent Dirichlet Allocation Models
• Authors: Jin Cheevaprawatdomrong, Alexandra Schofield, Attapol T. Rutherford
• Abstract summary: We propose a new metric for measuring the clustering quality in settings where the models differ. We show that topics trained with merged tokens result in topic keys that are clearer, more coherent, and more effective at distinguishing topics than those unmerged models.
• Score: 71.42030830910227
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Traditionally, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) ingests words in a collection of documents to discover their latent topics using word-document co-occurrences. However, it is unclear how to achieve the best results for languages without marked word boundaries such as Chinese and Thai. Here, we explore the use of Pearson's chi-squared test, t-statistics, and Word Pair Encoding (WPE) to produce tokens as input to the LDA model. The Chi-squared, t, and WPE tokenizers are trained on Wikipedia text to look for words that should be grouped together, such as compound nouns, proper nouns, and complex event verbs. We propose a new metric for measuring the clustering quality in settings where the vocabularies of the models differ. Based on this metric and other established metrics, we show that topics trained with merged tokens result in topic keys that are clearer, more coherent, and more effective at distinguishing topics than those unmerged models.

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