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+<WRAP centeralign>##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences</WRAP>
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+^  **DATE:**|Thursday, Month 31, 2017 |
+^  **TIME:**|1:15pm -- 2:15pm |
+^  **LOCATION:**|WH 100E |
+^  **SPEAKER:**|Fan Yang, Binghamton  University |
+^  **TITLE:**|Visualizing Topics with Multi-Word Expressions  |
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+<WRAP centeralign>**Abstract**</WRAP>
+We describe a new method for visualizing topics, the distributions over
+terms that are automatically extracted from large text corpora using latent variable
+models. Our method finds significant n -grams related to a topic, which are then
+used to help understand and interpret the underlying distribution. Compared with
+the usual visualization, which simply lists the most probable topical terms, the
+multi-word expressions provide a better intuitive impression for what a topic is
+“about.” Our approach is based on a language model of arbitrary length expressions,
+for which we develop a new methodology based on nested permutation tests to find
+significant phrases. We show that this method outperforms the more standard use of
+chi-square and likelihood ratio tests. We illustrate the topic presentations on
+corpora of scientific abstracts and news articles.
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