A probabilistic model of meetings that combines words and discourse features

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1238-1248

  Dowman, Mike ^a   Savova, Virginia ^b   Griffiths, Thomas L ^c   Körding, Konrad P ^d   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^b   Purver, Matthew ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical bayesian models; Latent dirichlet allocation; Markov chain monte carlo; Topical segmentation

Indexed keywords

GIBBS SAMPLING; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; TOPICAL SEGMENTATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 67649561065     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.925867     Document Type: Article

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