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the 6 steps of BERTopic

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Hello,

I have a question. According to the document, I understand that BERT-Topic consists of six steps, with the representation tuning step being optional. I have read many articles in a specific field that used BERTopic, but my question is why they don’t all include these five steps. For example, some articles only include embedding, dimension reduction, clustering, and weighting scheme (c-TF-IDEF). I’d like to know if each step can be omitted and whether using all five remaining steps is necessarily required?,

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from bertopic import BERTopic

BERTopic Version

0.16.3

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Research direction

Start by reading the BERTopic documentation describing its six steps and the optional representation-tuning step, then inspect the supplied BERTopic 0.16.3 import if needed. Done means the documentation clearly explains whether each step can be omitted and whether all remaining steps are required.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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