Topic modeling: syntactic versus semantic

1. Topic modeling has turned into a bit of a cottage industry in the NLP/machine learning world. Most seems to stem from latent Dirichlet allocation, though this of course built on previous techniques; the most well-known of which is latent semantic analysis. At the end of the day, such "topic models" really look more like dimensionality reduction techniques (eg., the similarity to multinomial PCA); however, in practice, they're often used as (perhaps soft) clustering methods. Words are mapped to t (Read Full Article)

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