A Probabilistic Graphical Model for Topic and Preference Discovery on Social Media

• Main Authors: LIU, Lu, ZHU, Feida, ZHANG, Lei, YANG, Shiqiang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Social media mining; Topic model; Preference discovery; Databases and Information Systems; Digital Communications and Networking; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3209; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4210/viewcontent/ProbabilisticGraphicalModelTopic_2012.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Many web applications today thrive on offering services for large-scale multimedia data, e.g., Flickr for photos and YouTube for videos. However, these data, while rich in content, are usually sparse in textual descriptive information. For example, a video clip is often associated with only a few ta...