Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) have been successfully applied to many text mining tasks for extracting topics embedded in corpora. However, existing topic models generally cannot discover bursty...Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) have been successfully applied to many text mining tasks for extracting topics embedded in corpora. However, existing topic models generally cannot discover bursty topics that experience a sudden increase during a period of time. In this paper, we propose a new topic model named Burst-LDA, which simultaneously discovers topics and reveals their burstiness through explicitly modeling each topic's burst states with a first order Markov chain and using the chain to generate the topic proportion of documents in a Logistic Normal fashion. A Gibbs sampling algorithm is developed for the posterior inference of the proposed model. Experimental results on a news data set show our model can efficiently discover bursty topics, outperforming the state-of-the-art method.展开更多
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2012AA011005)
文摘Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA) have been successfully applied to many text mining tasks for extracting topics embedded in corpora. However, existing topic models generally cannot discover bursty topics that experience a sudden increase during a period of time. In this paper, we propose a new topic model named Burst-LDA, which simultaneously discovers topics and reveals their burstiness through explicitly modeling each topic's burst states with a first order Markov chain and using the chain to generate the topic proportion of documents in a Logistic Normal fashion. A Gibbs sampling algorithm is developed for the posterior inference of the proposed model. Experimental results on a news data set show our model can efficiently discover bursty topics, outperforming the state-of-the-art method.
