We propose a new unsupervised learning technique for extracting information from large text collections. We model documents as if they were generated by a two-stage stochastic pro...
Mark Steyvers, Padhraic Smyth, Michal Rosen-Zvi, T...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to expand queries by exploring both location information and topic information of the queries. Users at different locations tend to have...
Shu Huang, Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee G...
An essential part of an expert-finding task, such as matching reviewers to submitted papers, is the ability to model the expertise of a person based on documents. We evaluate seve...
In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic generative model, called Topic-Perspective Model, for simulating the generation process of social annotations. Different from other g...
Caimei Lu, Xiaohua Hu, Xin Chen, Jung-ran Park, Ti...
This paper explores the relationship between discourse structure and coverbal gesture. Using the idea of gestural cohesion, we show that coherent topic segments are characterized ...