A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation
A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation
Jacob Eisenstein,Brendan T. O'Connor,Noah A. Smith,E. Xing
2010 · DBLP: conf/emnlp/EisensteinOSX10
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 721 Citations
TLDR
A multi-level generative model that reasons jointly about latent topics and geographical regions is presented, which recovers coherent topics and their regional variants, while identifying geographic areas of linguistic consistency.