[Ligncse256] questions regarding LDA

Matt Rodriguez mar008 at cs.ucsd.edu
Mon Feb 2 18:19:14 PST 2009


That's really helpful. Thanks for pointing this out.

Matt

Roger Levy wrote:
> Yes, this is correct!
>
> Andrea Biaggi wrote:
>   
>> Hey,
>> Yes, a word can be assigned to only one topic, in the same document.
>> But for example in our case if food of D1 and D2 have the same topic
>> than n_jk = 2 for that particular word and topic.
>> I have considered a vocabulary of size 3 but I have 4 different topic
>> assignment (one for food in D1 and one for food in D2, but they are the
>> same word)
>> That is what I've understood.
>> Hope this helps (and I hope it is right too :D)
>> Andrea
>>
>> Matt Rodriguez wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've started to work on the written assignment and I have a few
>>> questions.
>>>
>>> A word can only be assigned to one topic correct?
>>> This means that the n_jk term in the Q(z;w) function either 1 if the
>>> word was assigned to that topic or 0 if it was assigned to the other
>>> topic.
>>> Is this correct?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>
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