Topic Detection: What Is It All About?
A classic use case in text analytics is text summarization; that is the art of extracting the most meaningful words from a text document to represent it.
For example, if we have to catalog the tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare with let’s say 5 keywords only, “love”, “death”, “young”, “gentlemen”, “quarrel” might be sufficiently descriptive. Of course, the poetry is lost but the main topics are preserved via this keyword-based representation of the text.
Text Summarization
To obtain this kind of text…