This is a Java 1.6 implementation of a Chinese Restaurant Franchise Gibbs Sampler, a Bayesian Nonparametric Topic model fitter.
The algorithm for the Chinese Restaurant Franchise Sampler is described in:
Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models with Applications.
Y.W. Teh and M.I. Jordan. Bayesian Nonparametrics, 2010. Cambridge University Press.
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ywteh/research/npbayes/TehJor2010a.pdf
The closest related software is Chong Wang's C implementation Hierarchical Dirichlet processes for text
- http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~ywteh/research/software.html (by Yee Whye Teh) MATLAB and C
- http://www.arbylon.net/resources.html (by Gregor Heinrich) Java
under the GNU Lesser General Public License