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Journal Article
Structural–Semantic Term Weighting for Interpretable Topic Modeling with Higher Coherence and Lower Token Overlap
2026
Overview
Topic modeling of large news streams is widely used to reconstruct economic and political narratives, which requires coherent topics with low lexical overlap while remaining interpretable to domain experts. We propose TF-SYN-NER-Rel, a structural–semantic term weighting scheme that extends classical TF-IDF by integrating positional, syntactic, factual, and named-entity coefficients derived from morphosyntactic and dependency parses of Russian news texts. The method is embedded into a standard Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) pipeline and evaluated on a large Russian-language news corpus from the online archive of Moskovsky Komsomolets (over 600,000 documents), with political, financial, and sports subsets obtained via dictionary-based expert labeling. For each subset, TF-SYN-NER-Rel is compared with standard TF-IDF under identical LDA settings, and topic quality is assessed using the C_v coherence metric. To assess robustness, we repeat model training across multiple random initializations and report aggregate coherence statistics. Quantitative results show that TF-SYN-NER-Rel improves coherence and yields smoother, more stable coherence curves across the number of topics. Qualitative analysis indicates reduced lexical overlap between topics and clearer separation of event-centered and institutional themes, especially in political and financial news. Overall, the proposed pipeline relies on CPU-based NLP tools and sparse linear algebra, providing a computationally lightweight and interpretable complement to embedding- and LLM-based topic modeling in large-scale news monitoring.
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MDPI AG
