The Web has been rapidly "deepened" by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. As an essential task toward integrating these m...
Protection of privacy has become an important problem in data mining. In particular, individuals have become increasingly unwilling to share their data, frequently resulting in in...
Merchants selling products on the Web often ask their customers to review the products that they have purchased and the associated services. As e-commerce is becoming more and mor...
In a wide range of business areas dealing with text data streams, including CRM, knowledge management, and Web monitoring services, it is an important issue to discover topic tren...
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...