Global models of document structure using latent permutations
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Chen, Harr
Branavan, Satchuthanan R.
Barzilay, Regina
Karger, David R.
Date Issued
June 2009
Journal
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: the 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Chen, Harr, S.R.K. Branavan, Regina Barzilay, and David R. Karger (2009). "Global models of document structure using latent permutations." Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: the 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Morristown, N.J.: Association for Computational Linguistics): 371-379. © 2009 Association for Computing Machinery.
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Abstract
We present a novel Bayesian topic model for learning discourse-level document structure. Our model leverages insights from discourse theory to constrain latent topic assignments in a way that reflects the underlying organization of document topics. We propose a global model in which both topic selection and ordering are biased to be similar across a collection of related documents. We show that this space of orderings can be elegantly represented using a distribution over permutations called the generalized Mallows model. Our structure-aware approach substantially outperforms alternative approaches for cross-document comparison and single-document segmentation.
Subjects
algorithms
design
experimentation
languages
measurement
performance
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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