Challenge: Existing topic models that extract latent topics from text are based on latent topic and do not use intermediate variables such as latent subjects.
Approach: They propose a model that extends the continuous space topic model (CSTM) they pre-train word embeddings which capture the semantics of words and plug them into the CSTM .
Outcome: The proposed model performs better than the baseline model in terms of perplexity and convergence speed.

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