This paper presents preliminary results on the detection of cultural differences from people's experiences in various countries from two perspectives: tourists and locals. Our approach is to develop probabilistic models that would provide a good framework for such studies. Thus, we propose here a new model, ccLDA, which extends over the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) (Blei et al., 2003) and crosscollection mixture (ccMix) (Zhai et al., 2004 ) models on blogs and forums. We also provide a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the model on the cross-cultural data.
REF extended the work and proposed a new cross-collection mixture model to identify cross-culture differences in blogs and forums.
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Blogs and Forums with Mixed-Collection Topic Models
EMNLP
Computer Science