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Approach: They propose a dynamic and static topic model that considers dynamic and dynamic structures of topic evolution and static structures of the topic hierarchy at each time.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms conventional models on scientific papers . it shows that extracted topic structures are useful for analyzing research activities .

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