Analysing the Impact of Removing Infrequent Words on Topic Quality in LDA Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14505v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:20:12 GMT
• Title: Analysing the Impact of Removing Infrequent Words on Topic Quality in LDA Models
• Authors: Victor Bystrov, Viktoriia Naboka-Krell, Anna Staszewska-Bystrova, Peter Winker
• Abstract summary: The paper examines the effects of removing infrequent words for the quality of topics estimated using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The results indicate that pruning is beneficial and that the share of vocabulary which might be eliminated can be quite considerable.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: An initial procedure in text-as-data applications is text preprocessing. One of the typical steps, which can substantially facilitate computations, consists in removing infrequent words believed to provide limited information about the corpus. Despite popularity of vocabulary pruning, not many guidelines on how to implement it are available in the literature. The aim of the paper is to fill this gap by examining the effects of removing infrequent words for the quality of topics estimated using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. The analysis is based on Monte Carlo experiments taking into account different criteria for infrequent terms removal and various evaluation metrics. The results indicate that pruning is beneficial and that the share of vocabulary which might be eliminated can be quite considerable.

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