Evaluating Text Preprocessing Methods for Discovering Quality Topics to
Improve the Information Retrieval Mechanism
Lakshmi Sonkusale1, Krishna Kumar Chaturvedi2*, Anu Sharma2, Shashi Bhushan Lal2, Mohammad Samir Farooqi3, Achal Lama4, Dwijesh Chandra Mishra4, Pratibha Joshi5, Murari Kumar1
1Ph.D. Scholar, The Graduate School, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute,
New Delhi, India
2Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India
3Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India
4Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India
5Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
*Corresponding Author: Krishna Kumar Chaturvedi, Principal Scientist, ICAR-Indian
Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
Received:
July 24, 2023; Published: August 14, 2023
Abstract
Topic discovery is the innovation towards extracting the underlying semantic structure from large collection of unstructured text. It
is a convenient way to analyze unclassified text into topic clusters that can be utilized in classification of documents. A topic contains
a set of words that frequently occurs together and defines the complete text into specific category. Topic discovery can group words
with similar meaning and distinguish between uses of words with multiple meaning. It is an important and challenging task useful
in information retrieval process. This paper discusses different preprocessing methods of text mining by using Latent Dirichlet Allocation
(LDA) in determining number of topics. This will help in developing new computational methods to identify topics from text
dataset. The LDA is a statistical modelling approach to analyse unclassified text into useful topics. In this study, the effect of text preprocessing
methods on collected research articles for obtaining quality topics by applying grid search method for hyperparameters
optimization are explored and evaluated using coherence score and topic score. The study suggests that preprocessing affects the
number of topics and quality of these topics. The findings of the study will help in enhancing the information retrieval mechanism
based of the identified topics and also useful in recommending related research articles to the researchers.
Keywords: Topic Model; Hyperparameters; Topic Discovery; Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA); Grid Search
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