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Evaluation of unsupervised static topic models' emergence detection ability.

Xue Li¹, Ciro D Esposito², Paul Groth¹

¹Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Peerj. Computer Science

|June 26, 2025

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This study introduces a new metric to evaluate how well topic models detect emerging research trends. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) showed the best performance in identifying new topics, outperforming BERTopic.

Keywords:

Static topic modeling Topic emergence detection Unsupervised topic modeling

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Area of Science:

Computational Linguistics
Data Science
Bibliometrics

Background:

Identifying emerging topics is vital for tracking research, technology, and public discourse shifts.
Unsupervised topic modeling (LDA, BERTopic, CoWords) is common for topic extraction but lacks systematic comparison for retrospective emergence detection.
A dedicated metric for evaluating emergence detection in topic models is missing.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a quantitative evaluation metric for assessing topic models' effectiveness in detecting emerging topics.
To systematically compare Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), BERTopic, and CoWords for their ability to detect emerging topics.

Main Methods:

Development of a novel quantitative evaluation metric for emergence detection.
Qualitative analysis of topic model outputs.
Quantitative evaluation of LDA, BERTopic, and CoWords using the new metric.

Main Results:

Qualitative analysis suggests CoWords identifies emerging topics earlier than LDA and BERTopic.
Quantitative evaluation shows LDA achieves an 80.6% F1 score for emergence detection.
LDA outperforms BERTopic by 24.0% in emergence detection accuracy.

Conclusions:

The proposed metric offers a robust framework for benchmarking topic model performance in emergence detection.
LDA demonstrates strong quantitative performance in detecting emerging topics, surpassing BERTopic.
Different topic models exhibit varying strengths and limitations for identifying emerging research trends.