Ordinal mixed membership models
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Author(s)
Virtanen, S
Girolami, M
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We present a novel class of mixed membership models for joint distributions of groups of observations that co-occur with ordinal response variables for each group for learning statistical associations between the ordinal response variables and the observation groups. The class of proposed models addresses a requirement for predictive and diagnostic methods in a wide range of practical contemporary applications. In this work, by way of illustration, we apply the models to a collection of consumer-generated reviews of mobile software applications, where each review contains unstructured text data accompanied with an ordinal rating, and demonstrate that the models infer useful and meaningful recurring patterns of consumer feedback. We also compare the developed models to relevant existing works, which rely on improper statistical assumptions for ordinal variables, showing significant improvements both in predictive ability and knowledge extraction.
Date Issued
2015-06-01
Date Acceptance
2015-06-01
Citation
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2015, 37, pp.588-596
ISBN
9781510810587
Publisher
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)
Start Page
588
End Page
596
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Volume
37
Copyright Statement
© 2015 The Author(s). This paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which is incorporated herein by reference and is further specified at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode (human readable summary at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).
Identifier
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/virtanen15.html
Source
International Conference on Machine Learning
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-07-07
Finish Date
2015-07-09
Coverage Spatial
Lille, France