PSLDA: a novel supervised pseudo document-based topic model for short texts

Various kinds of online social media applications such as Twitter and Weibo, have brought a huge volume of short texts. However, mining semantic topics from short texts efficiently is still a challenging problem because of the sparseness of word-occurrence and the diversity of topics. To address the above problems, we propose a novel supervised pseudo-document-based maximum entropy discrimination latent Dirichlet allocation model (PSLDA for short). Specifically, we first assume that short texts are generated from the normal size latent pseudo documents, and the topic distributions are sampled from the pseudo documents. In this way, the model will reduce the sparseness of word-occurrence and the diversity of topics because it implicitly aggregates short texts to longer and higher-level pseudo documents. To make full use of labeled information in training data, we introduce labels into the model, and further propose a supervised topic model to learn the reasonable distribution of topics. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method achieves better performance compared with some state-of-the-art methods.