Entries from November 2009

November 17, 2009

Data for some topic model tasseography

Thanks to all of you who’ve expressed interest in and support for our recent paper Reading Tea Leaves: How Humans Interpret Topic Models, which was co-authored with Jordan Boyd-Graber, Sean Gerrish, Chong Wang, and David Blei. Many people (myself included) either implicitly or explicitly assume that topic models can find meaningful latent spaces with [...]