Pemodelan Topik dengan LDA untuk Temu Kembali Informasi dalam Rekomendasi Tugas Akhir

Abstract

Undergraduate thesis as the final project, or in Indonesian called as Tugas Akhir, for each undergraduate student is a pre-requisite before student graduation and the successfulness in finishing the project becomes as one of learning outcomes among others. Determining the topic of the final project according to the ability of students is an important thing. One strategy to decide the topic is reading some literatures but it takes up more time. There is a need for a recommendation system to help students in determining the topic according to their abilities or subject understanding which is based on their academic transcripts. This study focused on a system for final project topic recommendations based on evaluating competencies in previous academic transcripts of graduated students. Collected data of previous final projects, namely titles and abstracts weighted by term occurences of TF-IDF (term frequency–inverse document frequency) and grouped by using K-Means Clustering. From each cluster result, we prepared candidates for recommended topics using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) with Gibbs Sampling that focusing on the word distribution of each topic in the cluster. Some evaluations were performed to evaluate the optimal cluster number, topic number and then made more thorough exploration on the recommendation results. Our experiments showed that the proposed system could recommend final project topic ideas based on student competence represented in their academic transcripts.