| Challenge: | Existing evaluation paradigms are often divorced from real-world use . recent results have challenged the validity of the prevailing model evaluation paradigm . |
| Approach: | They show that neural topic models fare worse in both respects compared to an established classical method. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the members of the ensemble in both respects. |
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