Dependent hierarchical normalized random measures for dynamic topic modeling

Changyou Chen*, Nan Ding, Wray Buntine

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    Abstract

    We develop dependent hierarchical normalized random measures and apply them to dynamic topic modeling. The dependency arises via superposition, subsampling and point transition on the underlying Poisson processes of these measures. The measures used include normalised generalised Gamma processes that demonstrate power law properties, unlike Dirichlet processes used previously in dynamic topic modeling. Inference for the model includes adapting a recently developed slice sampler to directly manipulate the underlying Poisson process. Experiments performed on news, blogs, academic and Twitter collections demonstrate the technique gives superior perplexity over a number of previous models.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2012
    Pages895-902
    Number of pages8
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Event29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2012 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Duration: 26 Jun 20121 Jul 2012

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2012
    Volume1

    Conference

    Conference29th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2012
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityEdinburgh
    Period26/06/121/07/12

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