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Question-Driven Analysis and Synthesis: Building Interpretable Thematic Trees with LLMs for Text Clustering and Controllable Generation

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  • Haebom

Author

Tiago Fernandes Tavares

Outline

This paper introduces Recursive Thematic Partitioning (RTP), a novel framework that leverages large-scale language models (LLMs) to interactively construct binary trees to address the challenges of unsupervised text corpus analysis. RTP constructs an interpretable taxonomy by structuring each node with a natural language question for semantic segmentation of the data. We demonstrate that RTP offers higher interpretability than keyword-based clustering in conventional topic models and can be leveraged as a powerful feature in downstream classification tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the topic paths generated through RTP can serve as structured and controllable prompts for a generative model, enabling a powerful synthesis tool that consistently mimics specific features discovered in the source corpus.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
A novel framework that dramatically improves the interpretability of text data by leveraging LLM.
Demonstrated high interpretability and improved performance in downstream tasks compared to existing topic models.
Presenting the possibility of using prompts in a text generation model utilizing topic paths.
A paradigm shift from data exploration to knowledge-based topic analysis.
Limitations:
Information about specific Limitations is not included in the abstract (e.g., performance degradation conditions for RTP, LLM dependency, computational cost, etc.)
Lack of specific information about experimental details or actual implementation.
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