How Does Latent Semantic Analysis Work? A Visualisation Approach
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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
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1402.0543 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014