| E–M | Expectation–Maximization |
| GLDA | Granulated Latent Dirichlet Allocation |
| KL | Kullback–Leibler |
| LDA | Latent Dirichlet Allocation |
| pLSA | probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis |
| TM | Topic Modeling |
| VLDA | Latent Dirichlet Allocation model with variational E–M algorithm |