October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
As discussed earlier, the goal of topic modeling is to identify patterns in a text corpus that correspond to document topics. In this example, we will use a dataset originating from BBC news. This dataset is one of the standard benchmarks in machine learning research, and is available for non-commercial and research purposes.
The goal is to build a classifier that is able to assign a topic to an uncategorized document.
Greene and Cunningham (2006) collected the BBC dataset to study a particular document-clustering challenge using support vector machines. The dataset consists of 2,225 documents from the BBC News website from 2004 to 2005, corresponding to the stories collected from five topical areas: business, ...