Combing LDA and Word Embeddings for topic modeling

Edward Ma
Towards Data Science
3 min readSep 15, 2018

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“Business newspaper article” by G. Crescoli on Unsplash

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a classical way to do topic modeling. Topic modeling is unsupervised learning and the goal is to group different documents to the same “topic”.

A typical example is clustering news to the corresponding categories including “Finance”, “Travel”, “Sport” etc. Before word embeddings, we may use Bag-of-Words most of the time. However, the world…

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