HawkesTopic: A Joint Model for Network Inference and Topic Modeling from Text-Based Cascades

Xinran He, Theodoros Rekatsinas, James R. Foulds, Lise Getoor, Yan Liu

Abstract: Understanding the diffusion of information in social network and social media requires modeling the text diffusion process. In this work, we develop the HawkesTopic model (HTM) for analyzing text-b...