Ask HN: How to generate topics from a question(like what Quora doing)?

This SO had helped me solve a similar problem in the past.

https://datascience.stackexchange.com/a/7000

https://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iii-keyword-ext...

Here is a brief overview of what you need to do:

1. Use nltk to get all the nouns etc. from the topic.

2. You can use LDA/TF-IDF (gensim) for your questions to extract the most common topic.

3. Use cosine similarity once you have the corpus built to tag a question to the right category.

Look into gensim for more details for the topic modeling.