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I need to generate lists of words related to specific topics for a project. I am familiar with clustering methods of topic modeling such as LDA, but I have something else in mind. Are there any methods to generate lists of related words from a root word? For instance, where I could type "medicine" and it would return a list of words or terms related to medicine, such as "doctor", "malpractice", "office", etc.?

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You could try using word2vec: It orders words in vector space according to context, it allows you to retrieve words with similar context.

You can find pretrained models on the web.

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you! This is the approach I ended up taking. It occurred to me because I was already going to be using word2vec for a later aspect of the same project. $\endgroup$ – Christopher Costello Feb 20 '18 at 17:03
  • $\begingroup$ Happy to help ;) $\endgroup$ – S van Balen Feb 20 '18 at 19:41
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I think instead of building something from scratch, you should utilize the domain knowledge of experts.

One example: Turn Wikipedia's topic portals (e.g., the medicine portal) into a family tree.

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  • $\begingroup$ Hi Elias. Very insightful answer! $\endgroup$ – Christopher Costello Feb 18 '18 at 16:48

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