As many of you know, Villij is focusing a large majority of it’s time to discovering the possibilities LSA has to offer. Here is a short list of reference materials that I have put together about Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) from my tag cloud on Villij. I will add to this list periodically.
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TelcordiaTM Latent Semantic Indexing Software (LSI):
Beyond Keyword Retrieval
One aspect of the problem is lack of precision — on average 50% of the information retrieved will be irrelevant, and this is quite evident to users. Another problem is recall failure — you often retrieve as little as 20% of the available relevant information. This problem is much harder to grasp, since you don’t know what you are missing! Yet, it is very important for searchers and information providers alike.
