@article{landauer1998, title = {An Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis}, author = {Thomas K. Landauer and Peter W. Foltz and Darrell Laham}, journal = {Discourse Processes}, pages = {259--284}, volume = 25, year = 1998, id = {1152071}, priority = {0}, description = {Dissertation}, abstract = {Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a theory and method for extracting and representing the contextual-usage meaning of words by statistical computations applied to a large corpus of text (Landauer and Dumais, 1997). The underlying idea is that the aggregate of all the word contexts in which a given word does and does not appear provides a set of mutual constraints that largely determines the similarity of meaning of words and sets of words to each other. The adequacy of LSA�s reflection of human knowledge has been established in a variety of ways. For example, its scores overlap those of humans on standard vocabulary and subject matter tests; it mimics human word sorting and category judgments; it simulates word�word and passage�word lexical priming data; and, as reported in 3 following articles in this issue, it accurately estimates passage coherence, learnability of passages by individual students, and the quality and quantity of knowledge contained in an essay.}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/218b9289484633f9d267548939f7c1685/lm77}, keywords = {information_extraction, document_linking, concept_extraction, document_clustering, lsa information_retrieval,} }