Multilingual Topic Classification in X: Dataset and Analysis

Dimosthenis Antypas, Asahi Ushio, Francesco Barbieri, Jose Camacho-Collados


Abstract
In the dynamic realm of social media, diverse topics are discussed daily, transcending linguistic boundaries. However, the complexities of understanding and categorising this content across various languages remain an important challenge with traditional techniques like topic modelling often struggling to accommodate this multilingual diversity. In this paper, we introduce X-Topic, a multilingual dataset featuring content in four distinct languages (English, Spanish, Japanese, and Greek), crafted for the purpose of tweet topic classification. Our dataset includes a wide range of topics, tailored for social media content, making it a valuable resource for scientists and professionals working on cross-linguistic analysis, the development of robust multilingual models, and computational scientists studying online dialogue. Finally, we leverage X-Topic to perform a comprehensive cross-linguistic and multilingual analysis, and compare the capabilities of current general- and domain-specific language models.
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2024.emnlp-main.1123
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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20136–20152
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Dimosthenis Antypas, Asahi Ushio, Francesco Barbieri, and Jose Camacho-Collados. 2024. Multilingual Topic Classification in X: Dataset and Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 20136–20152, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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