The article presents a new approach to thematic modeling of texts - this is thematic modeling based on part-of-speech topics. We do not consider parts of the speech as a gnoseological concept that reflects the way in which language is formally classified. We believe that parts of speech are within the language competence of the person and are used in the process of communication, performing a certain function in the communication process. The essence of thematic modeling is seen as the creation of semantic models of the text corpus. The goal is to study the speech representation of modern movements and communities. The hypothesis is that the forums of a social movement reflect its characteristics, the nature, and activities of this movement. Three groups of the Russian social media VKontakte were chosen as an empirical object: 'All for the Victory!', 'Center of (City) Volunteers of St. Petersburg,' 'Volunteers of St. Petersburg.' Topic modeling was carried out using the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) method, implemented in the Gensim package along with the Mallet implementation. Model quality validation was carried out using the coherence coefficient. The described approach to the analysis of web texts of volunteer semantics based on the part-of-speech composition of topics made it possible to identify signs that characterize group identity, emotionality, and joint activities of Russian volunteers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 29th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2021
EditorsSergey Balandin, Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tatiana Tyutina
Place of PublicationTampere, Finland
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages247-253
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9789526924458
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 May 2021
Event29th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2021 - Virtual, Tampere, Finland
Duration: 12 May 202114 May 2021

Publication series

NameConference of Open Innovation Association, FRUCT
Volume2021-May
ISSN (Print)2305-7254

Conference

Conference29th Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT, FRUCT 2021
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityVirtual, Tampere
Period12/05/2114/05/21

    Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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