Human in the Loop: How to Effectively Create Coherent Topics by Manually Labeling Only a Few Documents per Class

Anton F. Thielmann, Christoph Weisser, Benjamin Säfken


Abstract
Few-shot methods for accurate modeling under sparse label-settings have improved significantly. However, the applications of few-shot modeling in natural language processing remain solely in the field of document classification. With recent performance improvements, supervised few-shot methods, combined with a simple topic extraction method pose a significant challenge to unsupervised topic modeling methods. Our research shows that supervised few-shot learning, combined with a simple topic extraction method, can outperform unsupervised topic modeling techniques in terms of generating coherent topics, even when only a few labeled documents per class are used. The code is available at the following link: https://github.com/AnFreTh/STREAM
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2024.lrec-main.736
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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8395–8405
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Anton F. Thielmann, Christoph Weisser, and Benjamin Säfken. 2024. Human in the Loop: How to Effectively Create Coherent Topics by Manually Labeling Only a Few Documents per Class. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 8395–8405, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Human in the Loop: How to Effectively Create Coherent Topics by Manually Labeling Only a Few Documents per Class (Thielmann et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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