A Shared IPTC Topic Space for Cross-Source Topic Modelling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26845v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:32:41 GMT
• Title: A Shared IPTC Topic Space for Cross-Source Topic Modelling
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a reproducible framework that places corpora in a single shared topic space defined by a taxonomy.<n>The framework was developed and selected on a controlled New York Times 2011 corpus.
• Score: 3.368151533620041
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Comparing topic attention across different media is hindered by a fundamental modelling problem: topic models fitted separately to each corpus produce corpus-specific topic spaces that cannot be aligned directly. This paper presents a reproducible framework that places corpora in a single shared topic space defined by a taxonomy. Discovered topics are obtained with guided BERTopic, scored against the ninety-four IPTC Media Topics' taxonomy topics (level-1) through weighted keyword and target centroids, and then collapsed upward to seventeen IPTC parent topics by a maximum-similarity rule. The framework was developed and selected on a controlled New York Times 2011 corpus through a narrowing sequence: a broad model screen, a focused mapping refinement, a strict finalist comparison, a target-construction ablation, and a threshold calibration. In this corpus, the guided family retained substantially stronger mapped coverage than a zero-shot benchmark under stricter assignment thresholds, a parent-enriched target construction improved both coverage and parent consistency, and coverage declined gradually rather than collapsing as the assignment threshold was tightened. The contribution is an externally anchored method for constructing a shared topic space that enables reproducible cross-source topic comparison.

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