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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.

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@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}
}

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13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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