Introduction—Topic models: What they are and why they matter

• Published in: Poetics (Amsterdam) Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 545 - 569
• Main Authors: Mohr, John W., Bogdanov, Petko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.12.2013
• Subjects: Content Analysis; Language Culture Relationship; Poetics; Topics; War

We provide a brief, non-technical introduction to the text mining methodology known as “topic modeling.” We summarize the theory and background of the method and discuss what kinds of things are found by topic models. Using a text corpus comprised of the eight articles from the special issue of Poet...