Users of topic modeling methods often have knowledge about the composition of words that should have high or low probability in various topics. We incorporate such domain knowledg...
Probabilistic latent semantic indexing (PLSI) represents documents of a collection as mixture proportions of latent topics, which are learned from the collection by an expectation...
Alexander Hinneburg, Hans-Henning Gabriel, Andr&eg...
We address the problem of learning topic hierarchies from data. The model selection problem in this domain is daunting—which of the large collection of possible trees to use? We...
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jor...
Transfer learning can be described as the tion of abstract knowledge from one learning domain or task and the reuse of that knowledge in a related domain or task. In categorizatio...
Kevin R. Canini, Mikhail M. Shashkov, Thomas L. Gr...
We apply nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian modelling to relational learning. In a hierarchical Bayesian approach, model parameters can be "personalized", i.e., owned b...
Zhao Xu, Volker Tresp, Kai Yu, Shipeng Yu, Hans-Pe...