Workshop Location:
Dan Panorama Hotel, Oren meetings room
Hotel Address: 107 Hanassi Avenue, Haifa
Hotel Phone: +972-4-8352222

Program:

9:00 - 10:30
Session chair: Michal Rosen-Zvi
  • Opening
  • Fast, sparse sampling techniques for statistical topic models
    David Mimno
  • Block-LDA: Jointly modeling entity-annotated text and entity-entity links
    Ramnath Balasubramanyan, William Cohen
  • Fast Sampling for LDA using the Normal Distribution
    Amit Gruber

    10:30-10:50
    Coffee break

    10:50-12:05
    Session chair: Amit Gruber
  • Identifying Surprising Events in Videos using Bayesian Topic Models
    Avishai Hendel, Daphna Weinshall, Shmuel Peleg
  • MMH: Maximum Margin Supervised Harmoniums
    Ning Chen, Jhu Zhu
  • The Latent Bernoulli-Gauss Model for Data Analysis
    Gabi Pragier, Amnon Shashua

    12:05-14:00
    Lunch break

    14:00-15:15
    Session chair: William W. Cohen
  • Author-Topic Models for Recommendation Tasks
    Ya'ara Goldschmidt, Iris Eiron, Benjamin Sznajder, Michal Rosen-Zvi
  • Approximate Mean Field for Dirichlet-Based Models
    Arthur Asuncion
  • Bilingual Topic Modeling of Chemical Compounds
    Andre Gohr, Andrea Porzel, Ludger Wessjohan, Alexander Hinneburg