论文标题
没有模式,没有认可:关于文本聚类和主题建模的可重复性和失真问题的调查
No Pattern, No Recognition: a Survey about Reproducibility and Distortion Issues of Text Clustering and Topic Modeling
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论文摘要
使用机器学习算法从未标记的文本中提取知识可能很复杂。文档分类和信息检索是两个应用程序,可以受益于无监督的学习(例如,文本群集和主题建模),包括探索性数据分析。但是,无监督的学习范式提出了可重复性问题。初始化可能会导致可变性,具体取决于机器学习算法。此外,关于群集几何形状,扭曲可能会产生误导。在原因中,异常值和异常的存在可能是决定因素。尽管初始化和异常问题与文本群集和主题建模相关,但作者并未找到对它们的深入分析。这项调查提供了这些亚地区的系统文献综述(2011-2022),并提出了共同的术语,因为类似的程序具有不同的术语。作者描述了研究机会,趋势和开放问题。附录总结了与审查的作品直接或间接相关的文本矢量化,分解和聚类算法的理论背景。
Extracting knowledge from unlabeled texts using machine learning algorithms can be complex. Document categorization and information retrieval are two applications that may benefit from unsupervised learning (e.g., text clustering and topic modeling), including exploratory data analysis. However, the unsupervised learning paradigm poses reproducibility issues. The initialization can lead to variability depending on the machine learning algorithm. Furthermore, the distortions can be misleading when regarding cluster geometry. Amongst the causes, the presence of outliers and anomalies can be a determining factor. Despite the relevance of initialization and outlier issues for text clustering and topic modeling, the authors did not find an in-depth analysis of them. This survey provides a systematic literature review (2011-2022) of these subareas and proposes a common terminology since similar procedures have different terms. The authors describe research opportunities, trends, and open issues. The appendices summarize the theoretical background of the text vectorization, the factorization, and the clustering algorithms that are directly or indirectly related to the reviewed works.