Grammars and Topic Models

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titleGrammars and Topic Models
start_date2013/09/20
schedule11h-12h30
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summaryContext-free grammars have been a cornerstone of theoretical computer science and computational linguistics since their inception over half a century ago.  Topic models are a newer development in machine learning that play an important role in document analysis and information retrieval.  It turns out there is a surprising connection between the two that suggests novel ways of extending both grammars and topic models.  After explaining this connection, I go on to describe extensions which identify topical multiword collocations and automatically learn the internal structure of named-entity phrases. These new models have applications in text data mining and information retrieval.
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