Monday, April 14, 2008

ICWSM Papers

Here are some highlights.

Lots of papers on LSA-LDA. I am fascinating by the elegance and non-supervision(?) of this technique.

Link-PLSA-LDA: A new unsupervised model for topics and influence of blogs

•The Psychology of Word Use in Depression Forums in English and in Spanish

 TREC

This is a conference where all papers are about solving a fixed set of problems on a given set of data. So, everybody understands 100% of all papers and fully engaged.

Document Representation and Query Expansion Models for Blog Recommendation basically, the winner of Blog'07

•On TREC Blog Track. The dataset is available for a nominal fee of 400 pounds.

 

With over 200 world languages and the most widely used language being oddly the simplest one, I thought that good language coverage can be achieved only by teams of zillion people. However, there are some tricks with machine translation:

International Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs

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