Department of Mathematics

 

 

ANALYSIS SEMINAR

 

 

 

 

"Overview of factor models applied to analysis of text documents"

 

 

SAVAŞ DAYANIK

(BİLKENT UNIVERSITY)

 

 

 Abstract: In this talk, I will go over factor models designed for the statistical analysis of text documents. A large text collection is often represented by a matrix indexed by its terms and documents. Each document corresponds to a column of this matrix and is a vector in the so-called term space. A factor model tries to find some commonality among terms and documents to reduce the dimension of term space. They involve lower-rank approximations of term-to-document matrix and produce dense lower-dimensional representations of documents. I will describe some of those models and illustrate them on numerical examples.

 

Date:  Thursday, October 27, 2016

Time: 13:40

Place: Mathematics Seminar, SA-141

 

 

Tea and cookies will be served before the seminar.