How Does Latent Semantic Analysis Work? A Visualisation Approach
Computation and Language
2014-02-05 v1 Information Retrieval
Abstract
By using a small example, an analogy to photographic compression, and a simple visualization using heatmaps, we show that latent semantic analysis (LSA) is able to extract what appears to be semantic meaning of words from a set of documents by blurring the distinctions between the words.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.0543,
title = {How Does Latent Semantic Analysis Work? A Visualisation Approach},
author = {Jan Koeman and William Rea},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0543},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables