Who Talks to Whom: Modeling Latent Structures in Dialogue Documents
- Bailu Ding ,
- Jiang-Ming Yang ,
- Chong Wang ,
- Rui Cai ,
- Zhiwei Li (李志伟) ,
- Lei Zhang
NIPS Workshop on Applications for Topic Models: Text and Beyond |
Various forms of data that consist of sequential messages abound in social networks, such as citations,
mail lists, chats, and forum discussions. A sequence of messages can be seen as a dialogue.
We call the correlation among messages, namely the ’who-talks-to-whom’ relationship, the dialogue
structure. Discovering dialogue structure is important for further studies on user behaviors.