Towards the TopMost: A Topic Modeling System Toolkit

Xiaobao Wu, Fengjun Pan, Anh Tuan Luu


Abstract
Topic models have a rich history with various applications and have recently been reinvigorated by neural topic modeling. However, these numerous topic models adopt totally distinct datasets, implementations, and evaluations. This impedes quick utilization and fair comparisons, and thereby hinders their research progress and applications. To tackle this challenge, we in this paper propose a Topic Modeling System Toolkit (TopMost). Compared to existing toolkits, TopMost stands out by supporting more extensive features. It covers a broader spectrum of topic modeling scenarios with their complete lifecycles, including datasets, preprocessing, models, training, and evaluations. Thanks to its highly cohesive and decoupled modular design, TopMost enables rapid utilization, fair comparisons, and flexible extensions of diverse cutting-edge topic models. Our code, tutorials, and documentation are available at https://github.com/bobxwu/topmost.
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2024.acl-demos.4
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Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
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August
Year:
2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Yixin Cao, Yang Feng, Deyi Xiong
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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31–41
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-demos.4
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.acl-demos.4
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Xiaobao Wu, Fengjun Pan, and Anh Tuan Luu. 2024. Towards the TopMost: A Topic Modeling System Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 31–41, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards the TopMost: A Topic Modeling System Toolkit (Wu et al., ACL 2024)
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