Topic Taxonomy Expansion via Hierarchy-Aware Topic Phrase Generation (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for topic taxonomies focus on frequent terms and local topic-subtopic relations, which leads to limited topic term coverage. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for topic taxonomy expansion that directly generates topic-related terms belonging to new topics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods on two real-world text corpora. |
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