title: Towards effective neural topic modeling
abstract: Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed an unprecedented explosion of information. Of these, a substantial portion consists of unlabeled textual data, such as tweets, news articles, product reviews, and web snippets.&#13;\nAs labeling is extremely expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes biased,&#13;\nhow to effectively analyze these data becomes an imperative.&#13;\nOwing to this, Neural Topic Models (NTMs) have emerged as a promising solution that attracts considerable research atte