Discovering voter preferences in blogs using mixtures of topic models

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 85-92

  Das, Pradipto ^a   Srihari, Rohini ^a   Mukund, Smruthi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; KL divergence; Sentiments; Social network; Topic models

Indexed keywords

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; GROUND TRUTH; KL-DIVERGENCE; NEW APPROACHES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TOPIC MODEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTERNET;

MODELS;

EID: 70450207996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1568296.1568311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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