Exploring Large Document Collections using Statistical Topic Models

@article{citeulike:838590, abstract = {We will demonstrate the topic model, a recent unsupervised learning technique that uses a statistical model to discover topics in a large collection of text documents. The first demonstration illustrates how the topic model automatically learns about the spectrum of research conducted by faculty members at UC Irvine and UC San Diego, how to topically characterize each researcher’s interests, and how to find researchers with similar interests – all in a completely unsupervised fashion. The second demonstration illustrates how medical researchers may use topic modeling to find new connections between genes and brain regions based on a large collection of articles on schizophrenia.}, author = {Newman, David and Asuncion, Arthur and Chemudugunta, Chaitanya and Kumar, Vasanth and Smyth, Padhraic and Steyvers, Mark }, citeulike-article-id = {838590}, institution = {University of California, Irvine}, keywords = {automatic-learning, data-processing, statistics}, posted-at = {2006-09-11 08:04:19}, priority = {3}, title = {Exploring Large Document Collections using Statistical Topic Models}, url = {http://www.kdd2006.com/docs/KDD06\_Demo\_16\_TopicModel.pdf\#search=\&\#34;david newman topic modelling\&\#34;}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:838590 L3 - citeulike-article-id:838590 TI - Exploring Large Document Collections using Statistical Topic Models N2 - We will demonstrate the topic model, a recent unsupervised learning technique that uses a statistical model to discover topics in a large collection of text documents. The first demonstration illustrates how the topic model automatically learns about the spectrum of research conducted by faculty members at UC Irvine and UC San Diego, how to topically characterize each researcher’s interests, and how to find researchers with similar interests – all in a completely unsupervised fashion. The second demonstration illustrates how medical researchers may use topic modeling to find new connections between genes and brain regions based on a large collection of articles on schizophrenia. KW - automatic-learning KW - data-processing KW - statistics AU - Newman, David AU - Asuncion, Arthur AU - Chemudugunta, Chaitanya AU - Kumar, Vasanth AU - Smyth, Padhraic AU - Steyvers, Mark PY - 2006/// UR - http://www.kdd2006.com/docs/KDD06_Demo_16_TopicModel.pdf#search="david newman topic modelling" ER -