SemaTopic: A Framework for Semantic-Adaptive Probabilistic Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is a crucial technique for Natural Language Processing (NLP) which helps to automatically uncover coherent topics from large-scale text corpora. Yet, classic methods tend to suffer from poor semantic depth and topic coherence. In this regard, we present here a new approach “SemaTopic” to improve the quality and interpretability of discovered topics. By exploiting semantic understanding and stronger clustering dynamics, our approach results in a more continuous, finer and more stable representation of the topics. Experimental results demonstrate that SemaTopic achieves a relative gain of +6.2% in semantic coherence compared to BERTopic on the 20 Newsgroups dataset (Cv=0.5315 vs. 0.5004), while maintaining stable performance across heterogeneous and multilingual corpora. These findings highlight “SemaTopic” as a scalable and reliable solution for practical text mining and knowledge discovery.

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Computers
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2025-09-19
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https://doi.org/10.3390/computers14090400
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Computational and Text Analysis Methods
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Abstract

Topic modeling is a crucial technique for Natural Language Processing (NLP) which helps to automatically uncover coherent topics from large-scale text corpora. Yet, classic methods tend to suffer from poor semantic depth and topic coherence. In this regard, we present here a new approach “SemaTopic” to improve the quality and interpretability of discovered topics. By exploiting semantic understanding and stronger clustering dynamics, our approach results in a more continuous, finer and more stable representation of the topics. Experimental results demonstrate that SemaTopic achieves a relative gain of +6.2% in semantic coherence compared to BERTopic on the 20 Newsgroups dataset (Cv=0.5315 vs. 0.5004), while maintaining stable performance across heterogeneous and multilingual corpora. These findings highlight “SemaTopic” as a scalable and reliable solution for practical text mining and knowledge discovery.

ComputersVol. 14(9)
École Centrale de Lyon (FR), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (FR), University of Carthage (TN), National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (TN), University of Jendouba (TN), Tunis El Manar University (TN)
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