Joint Group and Topic Discovery from Relations and Text
Abstract
We present a probabilistic generative model of entity relationships and textual attributes; the model simultaneously discovers groups among the entities and topics among the corresponding text. Block models of relationship data have been studied in social network analysis for some time, however here we cluster in multiple modalities at once. Significantly, joint inference allows the discovery of groups to be guided by the emerging topics, and vice-versa. We present experimental results on two large data sets: sixteen years of bills put before the U.S. Senate, comprising their corresponding text and voting records, and 43 years of similar data from the United Nations. We show that in comparison with traditional, separate latent-variable models for words or block structures for votes, our Group-Topic model's joint inference improves both the groups and topics discovered. Additionally, we present a non-Markov continuous-time group model to capture shifting group structure over time.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA477401
Entities
People
- Andrew McCallum
- Natasha Mohanty
- Xuerui Wang
Organizations
- University of Massachusetts Amherst