A Discriminative Topic Model using Document Network Structure

Document collections often have links between documents—citations, hyperlinks, or revisions—and which links are added is often based on topical similarity. To model these intuitions, we introduce a new topic model for documents situated within a network structure, integrating latent blocks of documents with a max-margin learning criterion for link prediction using topicand word-level features. Experiments on a scientific paper dataset and collection of webpages show that, by more robustly exploiting the rich link structure within a document network, our model improves link prediction, topic quality, and block distributions.