Why Didn’t You Listen to Me? Comparing User Control of Human-in-the-Loop Topic Models

Varun Kumar, Alison Smith-Renner, Leah Findlater, Kevin Seppi, Jordan Boyd-Graber


Abstract
To address the lack of comparative evaluation of Human-in-the-Loop Topic Modeling (HLTM) systems, we implement and evaluate three contrasting HLTM modeling approaches using simulation experiments. These approaches extend previously proposed frameworks, including constraints and informed prior-based methods. Users should have a sense of control in HLTM systems, so we propose a control metric to measure whether refinement operations’ results match users’ expectations. Informed prior-based methods provide better control than constraints, but constraints yield higher quality topics.
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P19-1637
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2019
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Florence, Italy
Editors:
Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6323–6330
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-1637
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-1637
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Varun Kumar, Alison Smith-Renner, Leah Findlater, Kevin Seppi, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. 2019. Why Didn’t You Listen to Me? Comparing User Control of Human-in-the-Loop Topic Models. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 6323–6330, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Why Didn’t You Listen to Me? Comparing User Control of Human-in-the-Loop Topic Models (Kumar et al., ACL 2019)
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