Abstract
Many chapters in this book illustrate that applying a statistical method such as latent semantic analysis (LSA; Landauer and Dumais, 1997; Landauer, Foltz, and Laham, 1998) to large databases can yield insight into human cognition. The LSA approach makes three claims: that semantic information can be derived from a word-document co-occurrence matrix; that dimensionality reduction is an essential part of this derivation; and that words and documents can be represented as points in Euclidean space. This chapter pursues an approach that is consistent with the first two of these claims, but differs in the third, describing a class of statistical models in which the semantic properties of words and documents are expressed in terms of probabilistic topics.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Handbook of Latent Semantic Analysis |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 427-448 |
Number of pages | 22 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781135603281 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780203936399 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Psychology