If we had a precise philosophical account of what it is for a statement to be about a particular object or subject matter, then we could define a topic-neutral statement as one that is not about anything or, perhaps, one that is about everything indifferently.
For BioCreative IV, a participating team defined a topic and tasks for curators' evaluation.
Based on our previous work on automatic extraction of interpretable topics from online discourse (Zhang et al. 2012), we define a hot topic as HT = {focal: facet 1, facet 2, …, facet n }, where HT represents a hot topic.
Define a particular topic for each page on your site and devote all content to that topic.
In defining a dissertation topic, the student collaborates with her or his faculty advisor or dissertation advisor (if one is selected) in the choice of a topic for the dissertation.
The student thereafter consults with this faculty member about choice of courses, seminars, and fields of study and, above all, about preparations for defining a dissertation topic.
During the first two years, the student participates in courses, writes two research papers, completes language requirements, defines a major and two minor fields of study, takes the general examination, and defines a dissertation topic.
While most of the thesis work occurs during the last term of the second year, students are urged to begin the process of defining a thesis topic early in the second year through their participation in a required thesis preparation seminar.
In [24], authors define a measure based on topic similarity and structure in the links between users.
