High-reproducibility and high-accuracy method for automated topic classification 11 years ago
Modeling words co-occurrence graph and then pruning "weak" edges (or achieving similar pruning by using community detection to find clusters) works kind of like a "feature selection" based on something that resembles a bare mutual information or tf*idf.
I'm not entirely familiar with LDA, but from what I was able to understand from their intro, it feels like their LDA application could have used some feature selection.