AI engineering glossary · NLP embeddings

What is topic modelling?

Topic modelling (also called Topic model): A family of unsupervised methods that discover groups of words that tend to appear together and describe each document as a mix of these groups. It is used to explore large text collections without labels.

Level: intermediateTopic: NLP embeddings

Topic modelling: an example

Running topic modelling on 50,000 news articles may reveal clusters such as elections, cricket and monsoon.

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Where you learn it

Topic modelling is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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