Pick LDA or BERTopic for a corpus. Specify library, knobs, evaluation. Use when you need help with topic picker.
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name: topic-picker
description: Pick LDA or BERTopic for a corpus. Specify library, knobs, evaluation. Use when you need help with topic picker.
license: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
phase: 5
lesson: 15
metadata:
version: 1.0.0
tags: [nlp, topic-modeling]
---
Given a corpus description (document count, avg length, domain, language, compute budget), output:
1. Algorithm. LDA / NMF / BERTopic / Top2Vec / FASTopic. One-sentence reason.
2. Configuration. Number of topics (start at ~sqrt(n_docs)), `min_df` / `max_df` filters, embedding model for neural approaches.
3. Evaluation. Topic coherence (c_v) via `gensim.models.CoherenceModel`, topic diversity, plus a 20-sample human read.
4. Failure mode to probe. For LDA, "junk topics" absorbing stopwords and frequent terms. For BERTopic, -1 outlier cluster swallowing ambiguous documents.
Refuse BERTopic on documents longer than the embedding model's context window without a chunking strategy. Refuse LDA on very short text (tweets, reviews under 10 tokens) as coherence collapses. Flag any n_topics choice below 5 or above 200 as likely wrong for real data.
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