MaartenGr / MaartenGr/BERTopic
It seems like topic terms has some word sequence that never appears in the raw training corpus.
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For example, I am sure these red-circled word sequence has never appeared in the original corpus. Why do they appear in the topic term list? @MaartenGr
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Start by reproducing the reported topic-term output from the linked image and compare it with the raw training corpus. Trace how BERTopic constructs its topic term list, then determine whether the displayed word sequences can be generated from the corpus and document the cause or expected behavior.
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- python
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- machine-learning
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