--lda_alpha

Switch

--lda_alpha [value]

Description

Set the LDA alpha hyperparameter, which is a prior on the number of topics per document.

Argument and Default Value

A value for alpha. Default: 5.0.

Details

See the DLATK LDA Interface tutorial for details.

Other Switches

Required Switches:

• -d, -g, -t, -f

• --estimate_lda_topics

• --lda_lexicon_name or --no_lda_lexicon

Optional Switches:

• --mallet_path

• --save_lda_files

• --lda_lexicon_name

• --no_lda_lexicon

• --num_topics

• --num_stopwords

• --no_lda_stopping

• --lda_beta

• --lda_iterations

Example Commands

See the DLATK LDA Interface tutorial for examples.