Topic Analysis Using a Finite Mixture Model

Proceedings of the 2000 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, SIGDAT-EMNLP 2000 - Held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 35-44

  Li, Hang ^a   Yamanishi, Kenji ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FINITE MIXTURE MODELING; STATISTIC MODELING; STATISTICAL LEARNING; TOPIC ANALYSIS; TOPIC STRUCTURES; WORDS CLUSTERS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 85082856667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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