LDA


Here are some links for LDA.  I'll be using slides created by Professor David Blei.  mlss09uk_blei_tm.pdf   His lecture using these slides is video-taped and is excellent.  Here's a link http://videolectures.net/mlss09uk_blei_tm/

 

Here are several other sources that flesh out various aspects of topic modeling

 

asuncion10.1.1.157.6861.pdf

Blei2011.pdf

BleiLafferty2009.pdf

 

We'll also talk about Dirichlet distributions.  The wikipedia page for Dirichlet distribution is very helpful for getting a feel on these distributions.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_distribution .  Here's a paper that covers different aspects of the Dirichlet.  minka-dirichletEst.pdf

 

Here are links to some of the code that I ran in class. 

dirichlet.R

lda.R

topicModels.R