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Maintainer: jalammar
Project maintained until at least: 2023-04-30
Topically is a [work-in-progress] suite of tools that help make sense of text collections (messages, articles, emails, news headlines) using large language models.
Topically's first feature is to name clusters of short texts based on their content. For example, here are news headlines from the machinelearning and investing subreddits, and the names suggested for them by topically:
Use Topically to name clusters in the course of topic modeling
import topically
app = topically.Topically('cohere_api_key')
example_texts = [
# Three headlines from the machine learning subreddit
"[Project] From books to presentations in 10s with AR + ML",
"[D] A Demo from 1993 of 32-year-old Yann LeCun showing off the World's first Convolutional Network for Text Recognition",
"[R] First Order Motion Model applied to animate paintings",
# Three headlines from the investing subreddit
"Robinhood and other brokers literally blocking purchase of $GME, $NOK, $BB, $AMC; allow sells",
"United Airlines stock down over 5% premarket trading",
"Bitcoin was nearly $20,000 a year ago today"]
# We know the first three texts belong to one topic (topic 0), the last three belong to another topic (topic 1)
example_topics = [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1]
topics_of_examples, topic_names_dict = app.name_topics((example_texts, example_topics)) #Optional: num_generations=5
topics_of_examples # Run again to get new suggested names. More text examples should result in better names.Output:
['Text recognition',
'Text recognition',
'Text recognition',
'Stock Market Closing Bell',
'Stock Market Closing Bell',
'Stock Market Closing Bell']
In this simple example, we know the cluster assignments. In actual applications, a topic modeling library like BERTopic can cluster the texts for us, and then we can name them with topically.
Use Topically to name clusters in the course of topic modeling with tools like BERTopic. Get the cluster assignments from BERTopic, and name the clusters with topically. This improves on the keyword topic labels (and can build upon them).
Here's example code and a colab notebook demonstrating this.
Code excerpt:
from bertopic import BERTopic
from topically import Topically
# Load and initialize BERTopic to use KMeans clustering with 8 clusters only.
cluster_model = KMeans(n_clusters=8)
topic_model = BERTopic(hdbscan_model=cluster_model)
# df is a dataframe. df['title'] is the column of text we're modeling
df['topic'], probabilities = topic_model.fit_transform(df['title'], embeds)
# Load topically
app = Topically('cohere_api_key')
# name clusters
df['topic_name'], topic_names = app.name_topics((df['title'], df['topic']))
df[['title', 'topic', 'topic_name']]
You can install topically from pypi:
pip install topically
Optionally, you can also install topically with BERTopic:
pip install topically[bertopic]
Topically uses a generative language model (GPT) to assign a name to the text cluster. It sends a request to Cohere's managed model (get an API key and use it for free for prototyping).
To generate the titles, topically uses a couple of bundled prompts. To get the best names for your use case, it's best to edit the prompt to add more information about the context, and add good cluster names for 3-5 of your clusters.
This works best on short texts (given the context length limitations of GPT models). If you're working with long texts, you may experiment with excerpts or summaries of the texts.
Topically is pretty simple and early in its life. At the moment, it's made up of two main class:
This class maintains the client to the Cohere platform, and exposes the main interaction point with Topically (name_topics, at the moment). It lives in app.py.
This class deals with preparing the prompts and calling the Generate endpoint to generate suggested topic names. It lives in cluster_namers.py.
If you have any questions or comments, please file an issue or reach out to us on Discord.
If you would like to contribute to this project, please read CONTRIBUTORS.md
in this repository, and sign the Contributor License Agreement before submitting
any pull requests. A link to sign the Cohere CLA will be generated the first time
you make a pull request to a Cohere repository.
Topically has an MIT license, as found in the LICENSE file.
