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Information Mapping Project (INFOMAP)

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The INFOMAP project is an older but nevertheless interesting introduction into semantic vector space models. The related software is freely available. It uses a combination of approaches but mostly relies on Schütze’s Automatic word sense discrimination work. However, it does not use context vectors and concentrates on a SVD compressed HAL matrix.

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The Mystery of Singular Value Decomposition

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Apperceptual comments on an interesting problem in one of his blog posts. He is discussing the importance of high order co-occurrences on word similarity measures in LSA. The part that interested me was the discussion of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). My gut feeling has always been that SVD’s most useful characteristic was to amplify the [...]

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