Supervised topic models with weighted words:multi-label document classification

Supervised topic modeling algorithms have been successfully applied to multi-label document classification tasks.Representative models include labeled latent Dirichlet allocation(L-LDA)and dependency-LDA.However,these models neglect the class frequency information of words(i.e.,the number of classes where a word has occurred in the training data),which is significant for classification.To address this,we propose a method,namely the class frequency weight(CF-weight),to weight words by considering the class frequency knowledge.This CF-weight is based on the intuition that a word with higher(lower)class frequency will be less(more)discriminative.In this study,the CF-weight is used to improve L-LDA and dependency-LDA.A number of experiments have been conducted on real-world multi-label datasets.Experimental results demonstrate that CF-weight based algorithms are competitive with the existing supervised topic models.