Abstract:
The tremendous increase in the amount of available research documents impels researchers to propose
topic models to extract the latent semantic themes of a documents collection. However, how to extract the
hidden topics of the documents collection has become a crucial task for many topic model applications.
Moreover, conventional topic modeling approaches suffer from the scalability problem when the size of
documents collection increases. In this paper, the Correlated Topic Model with variational Expectation Maximization algorithm is implemented in MapReduce framework to solve the scalability problem. The
proposed approach utilizes the dataset crawled from the public digital library. In addition, the full-texts of
the crawled documents are analysed to enhance the accuracy of MapReduce CTM. The experiments are
conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm. From the evaluation, the proposed
approach has a comparable performance in terms of topic coherences with LDA implemented in
MapReduce framework.
