Automatic generation of taxonomies can be useful for a wide area of applications. In our application scenario a topical hierarchy should be constructed reasonably fast from a large...
We introduce supervised latent Dirichlet allocation (sLDA), a statistical model of labelled documents. The model accommodates a variety of response types. We derive a maximum-like...
As microblogging grows in popularity, services like Twitter are coming to support information gathering needs above and beyond their traditional roles as social networks. But most...
Daniel Ramage, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling
In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
Information integration systems combine data from multiple heterogeneous Web services to answer complex user queries, provided a user has semantically modeled the service first. T...
Kristina Lerman, Anon Plangprasopchok, Craig A. Kn...