Multilingual Dynamic Topic Model

Elaine Zosa, Mark Granroth-Wilding


Abstract
Dynamic topic models (DTMs) capture the evolution of topics and trends in time series data. Current DTMs are applicable only to monolingual datasets. In this paper we present the multilingual dynamic topic model (ML-DTM), a novel topic model that combines DTM with an existing multilingual topic modeling method to capture cross-lingual topics that evolve across time. We present results of this model on a parallel German-English corpus of news articles and a comparable corpus of Finnish and Swedish news articles. We demonstrate the capability of ML-DTM to track significant events related to a topic and show that it finds distinct topics and performs as well as existing multilingual topic models in aligning cross-lingual topics.
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R19-1159
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019)
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September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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1388–1396
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https://aclanthology.org/R19-1159
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_159
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Elaine Zosa and Mark Granroth-Wilding. 2019. Multilingual Dynamic Topic Model. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019), pages 1388–1396, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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