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JSTOR_lda: Generate a topic model with K topics using the implementation of Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) in the lda package

Description

Generates a topic model with K topics using Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA, with the lda package) For use with JSTOR's Data for Research datasets (http://dfr.jstor.org/).

Usage

JSTOR_lda(unpack1grams, nouns, K, alpha = 50/K)

Arguments

unpack1grams
object returned by the function JSTOR_unpack1grams.
nouns
the object returned by the function JSTOR_dtmtonouns.
K
the number of topics that the model should contain
alpha
The scalar value of the Dirichlet hyperparameter for topic proportions. Higher values lead to more uniform distributions of topics over documents. Default is 50/K

Value

Returns a data frame with documents as rows, topics as columns and posterior probabilities as cell values.

Examples

Run this code
## lda1 <- JSTOR_lda(unpack1grams, nouns, K = 150) 

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