Parul Sethi | Visual Analysis of Topic Models

I will talk about how to interactively explore Topic models and it's entities: documents, topics and words for aiding the downstream NLP applications.

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1. VISUALIZING TOPIC MODELS Parul Sethi @parulsethi @parul1sethi
2. What do we look for? What is in them? How to navigate through them Too much textual data.
3. Bird’s eye view of documents Trafficking 13% Corruption 9% Drugs 12% Wars 25% Election 41%
4. How are the labels inferred Topic model gives us a set of words for each topic that it finds from the collection of documents. It looks through a corpus for these clusters of words and groups them together. In a good topic model, the words in topic make sense, for ex. “navy, ship, captain” and “tobacco, farm, crops.” army, killings, terrorist, bombs Trafficking 13% Corruption 9% Drugs 12% Wars 25% Election 41% overdose, smoke, dealer, rave bribe, scam, economy, illegal vote, party, campaign, candidate slavery, exploitation, victim, human
5. Topic Model Visualizations • pyLDAvis • Topic Difference • Topic Networks • Topic Dendrogram • LDA projections
6. pyLDAvis •Left panel represents the topics which are positioned according to their inter-topic distances •Right panel represents the list of terms that are most useful in interpreting the selected topic
7. Topic Difference •Heatmap represent the difference between the topics of two LDA models •Cell annotation represent the distance value (z), intersecting words (+++) and different words (---) between the topics (x, y) of the two model.
8. Topic networks •The nodes represent topic •Edges represent connections between topics created based on their distance •Node’s label define the topic no. and top 10 words •Edge’s label define the intersecting/different words between the two connected topics
9. Topic Dendrogram •Leaves represent topic •Y-axis is the measure of closeness of either individual topics or their cluster. Lesser the y value at the point of connection, more closely the topic/cluster are connected
10. But what about documents? • Which topics a document belong to • Which documents belong to this topic
11. LDA Projections •Each point represent a document •Distances are based on difference of topic distribution of documents •We can also discover document clusters using t-sne
12. THANK YOU!