BERTopic is a Python package for topic modeling that uses transformer-based embeddings and class-based TF-IDF to create dense document clusters with interpretable topic descriptions.
It’s designed for extracting themes from collections of text documents, while offering flexible configuration for embeddings, dimensionality reduction, clustering, tokenization, topic weighting, and representation models.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports guided, supervised, semi-supervised, manual, hierarchical, dynamic, online, multimodal, zero-shot, and class-based topic modeling.
- Provides methods to fit models, transform new documents, inspect topics, retrieve representative documents, merge topics, reduce topics, and reduce outliers.
- Includes visualization tools for topics, documents, hierarchies, heatmaps, term scores, topic distributions, and topics over time.
- Offers modular components for embeddings, dimensionality reduction, clustering, vectorization, weighting, and topic representation.
- Supports custom topic representations, including KeyBERT-inspired representations and LLM-based labels or summaries.
- Can be installed with optional backends for Flair, Gensim, spaCy, TensorFlow USE, fastembed, and vision-based workflows.
Website: github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic
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Developer: Maarten P. Grootendorst
License: MIT License
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