Connections between the lines: augmenting social networks with text

TitleConnections between the lines: augmenting social networks with text
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsChang J, Boyd-Graber J, Blei DM
Conference NameProceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Date Published2009///
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-60558-495-9
KeywordsGraphical models, social network learning, statistical topic models
Abstract

Network data is ubiquitous, encoding collections of relationships between entities such as people, places, genes, or corporations. While many resources for networks of interesting entities are emerging, most of these can only annotate connections in a limited fashion. Although relationships between entities are rich, it is impractical to manually devise complete characterizations of these relationships for every pair of entities on large, real-world corpora. In this paper we present a novel probabilistic topic model to analyze text corpora and infer descriptions of its entities and of relationships between those entities. We develop variational methods for performing approximate inference on our model and demonstrate that our model can be practically deployed on large corpora such as Wikipedia. We show qualitatively and quantitatively that our model can construct and annotate graphs of relationships and make useful predictions.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1557019.1557044
DOI10.1145/1557019.1557044