Pachinko allocation: DAG-structured mixture models of topic correlations
W Li, A McCallum - Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
W Li, A McCallum
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Machine learning, 2006•dl.acm.orgLatent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and other related topic models are increasingly popular
tools for summarization and manifold discovery in discrete data. However, LDA does not
capture correlations between topics. In this paper, we introduce the pachinko allocation
model (PAM), which captures arbitrary, nested, and possibly sparse correlations between
topics using a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The leaves of the DAG represent individual
words in the vocabulary, while each interior node represents a correlation among its …
tools for summarization and manifold discovery in discrete data. However, LDA does not
capture correlations between topics. In this paper, we introduce the pachinko allocation
model (PAM), which captures arbitrary, nested, and possibly sparse correlations between
topics using a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The leaves of the DAG represent individual
words in the vocabulary, while each interior node represents a correlation among its …
Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and other related topic models are increasingly popular tools for summarization and manifold discovery in discrete data. However, LDA does not capture correlations between topics. In this paper, we introduce the pachinko allocation model (PAM), which captures arbitrary, nested, and possibly sparse correlations between topics using a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The leaves of the DAG represent individual words in the vocabulary, while each interior node represents a correlation among its children, which may be words or other interior nodes (topics). PAM provides a flexible alternative to recent work by Blei and Lafferty (2006), which captures correlations only between pairs of topics. Using text data from newsgroups, historic NIPS proceedings and other research paper corpora, we show improved performance of PAM in document classification, likelihood of held-out data, the ability to support finer-grained topics, and topical keyword coherence.
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