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topicmodels: An R Package for Fitting Topic Models Bettina Grun Kurt Hornik ¨ Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz WU Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien ¨ ¨ Abstract This article is a (slightly) modified and shortened version of Grun and Hornik (2011), ¨ published in the Journal of Statistical Software. Topic models allow the probabilistic modeling of term frequency occurrences in doc- uments. The fitted model can be used to estimate the similarity between documents as well as between a set of specified keywords using an additional layer of latent variables which are referred to as topics. The R package topicmodels provides basic infrastructure for fitting topic models based on data structures from the text mining package tm. The package includes interfaces to two algorithms for fitting topic models: the variational expectation-maximization algorithm provided by David M. Blei and co-authors and an algorithm using Gibbs sampling by Xuan-Hieu Phan and co-authors. Keywords : Gibbs sampling, R, text analysis, topic model, variational EM. 1. Introduction In machine learning and natural language processing topic models are generative models which provide a probabilistic framework for the term frequency occurrences in documents in a given corpus. Using only the term frequencies assumes that the information in which order the words occur in a document is negligible. This assumption is also