What's behind topic formation and development
Tieyun Qian, Qing Li, Bing Liu, Hui Yun Xiong, Jaideep Srivastava, Phillip C.‐Y. Sheu · 2009
Over the past several years, there has been a great interest in topic detection and tracking (TDT). Recently, analyzing general research trend from the huge amount of history documents also arouses considerable attention. However, existing work on TDT mainly focuses on overall trend analysis, and is unable to address questions such as "what determines the evolution of a topic?" and "when and how does a new topic get formed?".