Improved Topic Representations of Medical Documents to Assist COVID-19 Literature Exploration
2020-12-01EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020Unverified0· sign in to hype
Yulia Otmakhova, Karin Verspoor, Timothy Baldwin, Simon Šuster
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Efficient discovery and exploration of biomedical literature has grown in importance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and topic-based methods such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) are a useful tool for this purpose. In this study we compare traditional topic models based on word tokens with topic models based on medical concepts, and propose several ways to improve topic coherence and specificity.