Probabilistic topic models
2012/03/23 by David M. Blei · 5,589 citations
Computer Science · #Artificial intelligence #Computer science #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Probabilistic logic #Topic Modeling #Web Data Mining and Analysis
paper · doi:10.1145/2133806.2133826
published in Communications of the ACM 55(4), 77-84 (Association for Computing Machinery)
openalex publication_date 2012/03/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Abstract
Surveying a suite of algorithms that offer a solution to managing large document archives.
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