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In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic model, Bag of Timestamps (BoT), for chronological text mining. BoT is an extension of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), and has two remarkable features when compared with a previously proposed Topics over Time (ToT), which is also an extension of LDA. First, we can avoid overfitting to temporal data, because temporal data are modeled in a Bayesian manner similar to word frequencies. Second, BoT has a conditional probability where no functions requiring time-consuming computations appear. The experiments using newswire documents show that BoT achieves more moderate fitting to temporal data in shorter execution time than ToT.
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Masada, T., Takasu, A., Hamada, T., Shibata, Y., Oguri, K. (2009). Bag of Timestamps: A Simple and Efficient Bayesian Chronological Mining. In: Li, Q., Feng, L., Pei, J., Wang, S.X., Zhou, X., Zhu, QM. (eds) Advances in Data and Web Management. APWeb WAIM 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5446. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00672-2_51
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