Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Blei et al., 2003, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Journal of Machine Learning Research)

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7.2 Document classification

  1. How did LDA work as a feature reducer for text classification?
    On Reuters-21578 binary tasks (EARN, GRAIN), an SVM on the 50 \(\gamma^*\) features of a 50-topic LDA model (a 99.6% feature reduction) lost little accuracy compared with all word features, and was better in almost all cases.

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