stm: An R Package for Structural Topic Models

This paper demonstrates how to use the R package stm for structural topic modeling. The structural topic model allows researchers to flexibly estimate a topic model that includes document-level metadata. Estimation is accomplished through a fast variational approximation. The stm package provides many useful features, including rich ways to explore topics, estimate uncertainty, and visualize quantities of interest.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Journal of Statistical Software

• Publication date

  2019-10-31

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.18637/JSS.V091.I02
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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