FuzzyTM: a Software Package for Fuzzy Topic Modeling

Proceedings of ... IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 1–8

Abstract

Unstructured text data is collected daily in large amounts by many organizations. Analyzing all this data is time intensive and too costly in many cases. One technique to systematically analyze large corpora of texts is topic modeling, which returns the latent topics present in a corpus. Recently, several fuzzy topic modeling algorithms have been proposed and have shown superior results over the existing algorithms. Although various Python libraries offer topic modeling algorithms, none includes fuzzy topic models. Therefore, we present FuzzyTM, a Python library for training fuzzy topic models and creating topic embeddings for downstream tasks. The user-friendly pipelines with default values allow practitioners to train a topic model with minimal effort. Meanwhile, its modular design allows researchers to modify each software element and for future methods to be added.

Authors 6

1. Emil Rijcken

   Eindhoven University of Technology

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   Eindhoven University of Technology,Jheronimus Academy of Data Science,Eindhoven,The Netherlands

   Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2. Pablo J. Mosteiro

   Utrecht University

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   Utrecht University,Information and Computing Sciences,Utrecht,The Netherlands

   Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

3. Kalliopi Zervanou Aachen

   Leiden University · Leiden University Medical Center

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   Leiden University,Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) & Leiden University Medical Center,Leiden,The Netherlands

4. Marco René Spruit Aachen

   Leiden University · Leiden University Medical Center

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   Leiden University,Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) & Leiden University Medical Center,Leiden,The Netherlands

5. Floortje E. Scheepers

   University Medical Center Utrecht

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   Psychiatry University Medical Centre Utrecht,Utrecht,The Netherlands

   Psychiatry University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

6. Uzay Kaymak

   Eindhoven University of Technology

   Affiliation as printed

   Eindhoven University of Technology,Jheronimus Academy of Data Science,Eindhoven,The Netherlands

   Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands