One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
The hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP) is a Bayesian nonparametric mixed membership model--each data point is modeled with a collection of components of different proportions. T...
Sinead Williamson, Chong Wang, Katherine A. Heller...
We propose the hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP), a nonparametric Bayesian model for clustering problems involving multiple groups of data. Each group of data is modeled with a...
Yee Whye Teh, Michael I. Jordan, Matthew J. Beal, ...
This paper demonstrates a new method for leveraging unstructured annotations to infer semantic document properties. We consider the domain of product reviews, which are often anno...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Re...
Previous work using topic model for statistical machine translation (SMT) explore topic information at the word level. However, SMT has been advanced from word-based paradigm to p...
Xinyan Xiao, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Qun Liu, Shoux...