Research on Topic Evolution Path Recognition Based on LDA2vec Symmetry Model

Topic extraction and evolution analysis became a research hotspot in the academic community due to its ability to reveal the development trend of a certain field and discover the evolution law of topic content in different development stages of the field. However, current research methods still face...

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Main Authors: Tao Zhang, Wenbo Cui, Xiaoli Liu, Lei Jiang, Jinling Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Symmetry
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/4/820
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Summary:Topic extraction and evolution analysis became a research hotspot in the academic community due to its ability to reveal the development trend of a certain field and discover the evolution law of topic content in different development stages of the field. However, current research methods still face challenges, such as inaccurate topic recognition and unclear evolution paths, which can seriously compromise the comprehensiveness and accuracy of the analysis. To address the problem, the paper proposes a topic evolution path recognition method based on the LDA2vec symmetry model. Under given conditions, both the LDA and Word2vec used in the model conform to the structural symmetry of their datasets in high-dimensional space, and the fused LDA2vec method improves the accuracy of the analysis results. Firstly, we recognize the topics based on the LDA model, which uses Gibbs symmetric sampling and obeys the symmetric Dirichlet distribution to ensure data convergence. Secondly, Word2vec is used to learn the contextual information of the topic words in the document collection, and the words in the corpus are projected as vectors in the high-dimensional space so that the computed pairs of words with similar semantics have symmetry in the hyperplane of the high-dimensional space. Subsequently, the word vector is used as a weight, and the LDA topic word probability value is weighted to generate a new topic vector. Thirdly, the vector similarity index is employed to calculate the semantic similarity among topics at adjacent stages, and evolution paths that directly reflect the topic relationships are constructed. Finally, an empirical study is conducted in the field of data security to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for topic evolution analysis. The results show that the proposed approach can accurately recognize the topic content and construct clear evolution paths, which contribute to the comprehensive and accurate analysis of topic evolution in a specific research field.
ISSN:2073-8994