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Re:Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based o... by c5urf3r on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:19AM (#15381675)
That is a thought which indeed crossed my mind.

I personally play around with a lot of tools and languages and wanted to make sure that language barrier didn't make the tool limited. In the sense that if there are a lot of repositories out there in js for something I am starting in python I may wanna take a look at why so many people chose to do it in js instead of python and then make my decision based on it.

This definitely will be lost if I filtered based on languages. In the current form, it gives importance to the topic and not the language for this specific reason.

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Re:Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based o... by nerdponx on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:11AM (#15382369)
There's a variant of LDA called "structured LDA" that allows you to introduce a linear combination of "structural variables" into the topic distribution prior. If you wanted to make this project "language-aware", might be a good use case for sLDA.
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