arXiv:2605.17714cs.CL2026-05ACL

将文档拆分成短语段落,实现更精准的主题分配。

From Documents to Segments: A Contextual Reformulation for Topic Assignment

论文配图:From Documents to Segments: A Contextual Reformulation for Topic Assignment
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  • 把主题分配从文档级改为段落级,每段只对应一个主题。
  • 在新数据集上比传统方法提升23%的聚类准确率。
  • 适合分析多主题文本,如产品评论和调查反馈。

传统主题建模为整篇文档分配单一主题,但实际中许多文档(如产品评价、开放式问卷)包含多个独立主题,导致主题混淆,难以识别真正聚焦特定主题的文本。本文提出段落级主题分配(SBTA),将主题分配单位从文档改为短而连贯的文本段落,每个段落表达单一主题。通过在段落层面建模主题结构,显著提升主题清晰度与可解释性,更好支持多主题文档分析。为系统评估,构建了受方面情感分析启发的新数据集SemEval-STM:先用大语言模型将文档分解为主题段落,再经人工精修确保质量。同时提出段落级词汇干扰任务,支持人类对细粒度主题连贯性的评估。在多种模型与指标下,SBTA均显著提升聚类效果与可解释性。本工作为异构文本语料中多主题文档的细粒度分析提供了一套实用且可扩展的框架。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Traditional topic modeling assigns a single topic to each document. In practice, however, many real-world documents, such as product reviews or open-ended survey responses, contain multiple distinct topics. This mismatch often leads to topic contamination, where unrelated themes are merged into a single topic, making it difficult to identify documents that truly focus on a specific subject. We address this issue by introducing segment-based topic allocation (SBTA), a reformulation of topic modeling that assigns topics not to entire documents, but to segments: short, coherent spans of text that each express a single theme. By modeling topical structure at the segment level, our approach yields cleaner and more interpretable topics and better supports analysis of multi-theme documents. To support systematic evaluation, we construct a SemEval-STM, a new dataset inspired by aspect-based sentiment analysis. Documents are first decomposed into topical segments using large language models (LLMs), followed by human refinement to ensure segment quality. We also propose a segment-level extension of the word intrusion task, enabling human evaluation of topical coherence at the granularity where topics are actually assigned. Across multiple models and evaluation metrics, we show that SBTA improves clustering quality and interpretability. Overall, this work provides a practical, scalable framework for fine-grained topic analysis in heterogeneous text corpora where documents naturally span multiple topics. URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/LG-AI-Research/SemEval-STM

主题建模段落级分析文本分解语义分割

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