Yano et al NAACL 2009
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Summary
This paper describes a topic model based approach in modeling the generation of blog text (posts and comments).
Brief description of the method
This paper expands upon LinkLDA, presented in Erosheva et al. (2004).
Although LinkLDA can model which users are likely to respond to a post, it does not model the comment text they will write. The authors expand on this by proposing CommentLDA.
Experimental Result
Task: given a training dataset consisting of a collection of blog posts and their commenters and comments, and a unseen test dataset from a later time period, predict who is going to comment on a new blog post from the test set.
Dataset is available at
The compared models were:
