TextNetTopics-SFTS-SBTS: TextNetTopics Scoring Approaches Based Sequential Forward and Backward

Abstract

TextNetTopics is a text classification-based topic modeling approach that performs topic selection rather than word selection to train a machine learning algorithm. However, one main limitation of TextNetTopics is that its scoring component (the S component) assesses each topic independently and ranks them accordingly, neglecting the potential relationship between topics. In order to address this limitation and improve the classification performance, this study introduces an enhancement to TextNetTopics. TextNetTopics-SFTS-SBTS integrates two novel scoring approaches: Sequential Forward Topic Scoring (SFTS) and Sequential Backward Topic Scoring (SBTS), which consider topic interactions by assessing sets of topics simultaneously. This integration aims to streamline the topic selection process and enhance classifier efficiency for text classification. The results obtained across three datasets offer valuable insights into the context-dependent effectiveness of the new scoring mechanisms across diverse datasets and varying numbers of topics involved in the analysis.