A User-Centered, Interactive, Human-in-the-Loop Topic Modelling System

Zheng Fang, Lama Alqazlan, Du Liu, Yulan He, Rob Procter

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Abstract

Human-in-the-loop topic modelling incorporates users' knowledge into the modelling process, enabling them to refine the model iteratively. Recent research has demonstrated the value of user feedback, but there are still issues to consider, such as the difficulty in tracking changes, comparing different models and the lack of evaluation based on real-world examples of use. We developed a novel, interactive human-in-the-loop topic modeling system with a user-friendly interface that enables users compare and record every step they take, and a novel topic words suggestion feature to help users provide feedback that is faithful to the ground truth. Our system also supports not only what traditional topic models can do, i.e., learning the topics from the whole corpus, but also targeted topic modelling, i.e., learning topics for specific aspects of the corpus. In this article, we provide an overview of the system and present the results of a series of user studies designed to assess the value of the system in progressively more realistic applications of topic modelling.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages505-522
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781959429449
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2023 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: 2 May 20236 May 2023

Publication series

NameEACL 2023 - 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2023
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period2/05/20236/05/2023

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