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Topic And Role Discovery In Social Networks With Experiments On Enron And Academic Email, Andrew Mccallum, Xuerui Wang, Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel

Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel

Previous work in social network analysis (SNA) has modeled the existence of links from one entity to another, but not the attributes such as language content or topics on those links. We present the Author-Recipient-Topic (ART) model for social network analysis, which learns topic distributions based on the direction-sensitive messages sent between entities. The model builds on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and the Author-Topic (AT) model, adding the key attribute that distribution over topics is conditioned distinctly on both the sender and recipient---steering the discovery of topics according to the relationships between people. We give results on both the Enron …