now we can see that many documents touch upon to different topics what are these topicstechnicallythey are multinomial distributions over wordswhich mean that they give each word in the vocabulary probability words with high probability are more associated with that topic than words with lower probability our brains aren' very good at reasoning with probability distributionsbut we can readily make sense of list of words thereforeit is typical to summarize topics with the list of the most highly weighted words here are the first ten topicsdress military soviet president new state capt carlucci states leader stance government koch zambia lusaka one-party orange kochs party government mayor new political human turkey rights abuses royal thompson threats new state wrote garden president bill employees experiments levin taxation federal measure legislation senate president whistleblowers sponsor ohio july drought jesus disaster percent hartford mississippi crops northern valley virginia united percent billion year president world years states people bush news hughes affidavit states united ounces squarefoot care delaying charged unrealistic bush yeutter dukakis bush convention farm subsidies uruguay percent secretary general told kashmir government people srinagar india dumps city two jammu-kashmir group moslem pakistan workers vietnamese irish wage immigrants percent bargaining last island police hutton