Improving LDA Topic Models for Microblogs via Tweet Pooling and Automatic Labeling

Mehrotra, Rishabh; Sanner, Scott; Buntine, Wray; Xie, Lexing

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Improving LDA Topic Models for Microblogs via Tweet Pooling and Automatic Labeling

Date

2013

Authors

Mehrotra, Rishabh

Sanner, Scott

Buntine, Wray

Xie, Lexing

Publisher

SIGIR 2013 Workshop proceedings

Abstract

Twitter, or the world of 140 characters poses serious challenges to the efficacy of topic models on short, messy text. While topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have a long history of successful application to news articles and academic