Supervised Topic Modeling Using Hierarchical Dirichlet Process-Based Inverse Regression: Experiments on E-Commerce Applications.

The proliferation of e-commerce calls for mining consumer preferences and opinions from user-generated text. To this end, topic models have been widely adopted to discover the underlying semantic themes (i.e., topics). Supervised topic models have emerged to leverage discovered topics for predicting the response of interest (e.g., product quality and sales). However, supervised topic modeling rema...