Who Talks to Whom: Modeling Latent Structures in Dialogue Documents

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  • 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.