LDA for Text Summarization and Topic Detection - DZone AI

Machine learning clustering techniques are not the only way to extract topics from a text data set. Text mining literature has proposed a number of statistical models, known as probabilistic topic models, to detect topics from an unlabeled set of documents. One of the most popular models is the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) algorithm developed by Blei, Ng, and Jordan [i]. LDA is a generative unsupervised probabilistic algorithm that isolates the top K topics in a data set as described by the most relevant N keywords. In other words, the documents in the data set are represented as random mixtures of latent topics, where each topic is characterized by a Dirichlet distribution over a fixed vocabulary.