README.md

Code for Short Text Topic Modeling with Flexible Word Patterns

Usage

1. prepare multiterms

    python preprocess_multiTerm.py --data_path {data_path} --output_dir {output_dir}

data_path is the path of short texts in the form of

    word1 word2...
    ...

such as

    python preprocess_multiTerm.py --data_path data/stackoverflow --output_dir output/stackoverflow

Please NOTE that the words in each short text should keep the original order.

After running, these files will be outputted in output_dir:

• multiTerms

word_id of each multiterm.

    word_id word_id...
    ...

• multiTerms_list

word_id of each distinct multiterm.

    word_id word_id...
    ...

• transformed_multiTerm_texts

Multierms of each text. Each multiterm is made up of word ids.

    word_id word_id, word_id word_id, ...
    ...

• word_index.txt

    word_id word 
    ...

• mit_id_text

    mit_id mit_id mit_id ... 

2. run MTM

    java MTM.MultiTermModel {topic_num} {input_path} {output_path} {alpha} {beta} {iteration times}

input_path is the path including the output files of preprocess_multiterm.py.

such as

    java MTM.MultiTermModel 20 output/stackoverflow/ output/stackoverflow/topic_20/ 2.0 0.08 500

The following files will be outputted in output_path:

• top_topics: word ids sorted by p(w|z).

• top_topics_words: words sorted by p(w|z).

• pz_d: topic distributions of each text.

Then you can evaluate the topic words with the coherence score. An example of coherence score output log can be found in output/stackoverflow/stackoverflow_K20.

Citation

If you want to use our code, please cite as

    @inproceedings{Wu2019,
        author = {Wu, Xiaobao and Li, Chunping},
        booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Neural Networks},
        title = {{Short Text Topic Modeling with Flexible Word Patterns}},
        year = {2019}
    }