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Preferred term

topic detection  

Definition

  • The task/process of identifying the topic of a text or dataset (e.g. by clustering keywords or using topic models) (Loterre)

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • topic extraction

Example

  • ESA performs slightly worse than "Word2Vec" in topic detection mainly because the label names i.e. topics such as "sports" are closer than some keywords such as "basketball" in Word2Vec space. (Yin, Hay & Roth, 2019)

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