Probabilistic topic decomposition of an
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David J. Newman; Sharon Block
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We use a probabilistic mixture decomposition method to determine topics in the __Pennsylvania Gazette__, a major colonial U.S. newspaper from 1728โ1800. We assess the value of several topic decomposition techniques for historical research and compare the accuracy and efficacy of various