Publications associées à Topic model

How Words Move Hearts: Interpretable Machine Learning Models of Bias, Engagement, and Influence in Socio-Political Systems

We study socio-political systems in representative democracies. Motivated by problems that affect the proper functioning of the system, we build computational methods to answer research questions regarding the phenomena occurring in them. For each phenomen ...

EPFL2023

Robustness, replicability and scalability in topic modelling

Omar Ballester Gonzalez, Orion B Penner

Approaches for estimating the similarity between individual publications are an area of long -standing interest in the scientometrics and informetrics communities. Traditional techniques have generally relied on references and other metadata, while text mi ...

ELSEVIER2022

Technology Strategy in Dynamic Environments: A Computational Analysis of the Automation of Routines, the Organization of AI, and the Evaluation of Technology Risk

Maximilian Wieland Hofer

In this dissertation, I develop theory and evidence to argue that new technologies are central to how firms organize to create and capture value. I use computational methods such as reinforcement learning and probabilistic topic modeling to investigate thr ...

EPFL2022

Self-Supervised Neural Topic Modeling

Martin Jaggi

Topic models are useful tools for analyzing and interpreting the main underlying themes of large corpora of text. Most topic models rely on word co-occurrence for computing a topic, i.e., a weighted set of words that together represent a high-level semanti ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2021

Discovering Tonal Profiles with Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss

Music analysis, in particular harmonic analysis, is concerned with the way pitches are organized in pieces of music, and a range of empirical applications have been developed, for example, for chord recognition or key finding. Naturally, these approaches r ...

2021

Learning computationally efficient static word and sentence representations

Prakhar Gupta

Most of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms involve use of distributed vector representations of linguistic units (primarily words and sentences) also known as embeddings in one way or another. These embeddings come in two flavours namely, sta ...

EPFL2021

Learning Urban Nightlife Routines from Mobile Data

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Thanh Trung Phan

The use of smartphone sensing for public health studies is appealing to understand routines. We present an approach to learn nightlife routines in a smartphone sensing dataset volunteered by 184 young people (1586 weekend nights with location data captured ...

ACM2020

Evolution of Topics and Novelty in Science

Omar Ballester Gonzalez, Orion B Penner

Methods of estimating the similarity between individual publications is an area of long-standing interest in the scientometrics community. Traditional methods have generally relied on references and other metadata, while text mining approaches based on tit ...

INT SOC SCIENTOMETRICS & INFORMETRICS-ISSI2019

Transitions of Tonality: A Model-Based Corpus Study

Fabian Claude Moss

Tonality has been the cornerstone of Western music-theoretical discourse for centuries. This study addresses the subject, using traditional music analysis, data-driven corpus methods, and computational models, concentrating on historical changes of tonalit ...

EPFL2019

Discovering Eating Routines in Context with a Smartphone App

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Joan Isaac Biel Tres

In everyday life, eating follows patterns and occurs in context. We present an approach to discover daily eating routines of a population following a multidimensional representation of eating episodes, using data collected with the Bites'n'Bits smartphone ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Learning with Structured Sparsity: From Discrete to Convex and Back

Marwa El Halabi

In modern-data analysis applications, the abundance of data makes extracting meaningful information from it challenging, in terms of computation, storage, and interpretability. In this setting, exploiting sparsity in data has been essential to the developm ...

EPFL2018

Text Similarity in Vector Space Models: A Comparative Study

Kenneth Younge, Omid Shahmirzadi, Adam Lugowski

Automatic measurement of semantic text similarity is an important task in natural language processing. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of different vector space models to perform this task. We address the real-world problem of modeling patent-to ...

2018

Data Summarization with Social Contexts

Karl Aberer, Tian Guo, Rameez Rahman, Hao Zhuang, Xia Hu

While social data is being widely used in various applications such as sentiment analysis and trend prediction, its sheer size also presents great challenges for storing, sharing and processing such data. These challenges can be addressed by data summariza ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Semantic parametric body shape estimation from noisy depth sequences

Alexandru Eugen Ichim

The paper proposes a complete framework for tracking and modeling articulated human bodies from sequences of range maps acquired from off-the-shelf depth cameras. In particular, we propose an original approach for fitting a pre-defined parametric shape mod ...

Elsevier2016

Mining, Modeling and Predicting Mobility

Mohamed Kafsi

Mobility is a central aspect of our life, and our movements reveal much more about us than simply our whereabouts. In this thesis, we are interested in mobility and study it from three different perspectives: the modeling perspective, the information-theor ...

EPFL2015

A Sequential Topic Model for Mining Recurrent Activities from Long Term Video Logs

Jean-Marc Odobez, Jagannadan Varadarajan, Rémi Emonet

This paper introduces a novel probabilistic activity modeling approach that mines recurrent sequential patterns called motifs from documents given as word×time count matrices (e.g., videos). In this model, documents are represented as a mixture of sequenti ...

Springer2013

Sequential Topic Models for Mining Recurrent Activities and their Relationships : Application to long term video recordings

Jagannadan Varadarajan

In this thesis, we address the analysis of activities from long term data logs with an emphasis on video recordings. Starting from simple words from video, we progressively build methods to infer higher level scene semantics. The main strategies used to ac ...

EPFL2012

Tag Recommendation for Large-Scale Ontology-Based Information Systems

Karl Aberer, Alexey Boyarsky, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Roman Prokofyev

We tackle the problem of improving the relevance of automatically selected tags in large-scale ontology-based information systems. Contrary to traditional settings where tags can be chosen arbitrarily, we focus on the problem of recommending tags (e.g., co ...

Springer2012

Discovering Routines from Large-Scale Human Locations using Probabilistic Topic Models

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Katayoun Farrahi

In this work we discover the daily location-driven routines which are contained in a massive real-life human dataset collected by mobile phones. Our goal is the discovery and analysis of human routines which characterize both individual and group behaviors ...

2011

A Probabilistic Approach to Socio-Geographic Reality Mining

Katayoun Farrahi

As we live our daily lives, our surroundings know about it. Our surroundings consist of people, but also our electronic devices. Our mobile phones, for example, continuously sense our movements and interactions. This socio-geographic data could be continuo ...

EPFL2011