This study explores how Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) can be used as a method to examine the lexical development of second language (L2) speakers. This year long longitudinal stu...
Scott A. Crossley, Thomas L. Salsbury, Philip M. M...
We explore the near-synonym lexical choice problem using a novel representation of near-synonyms and their contexts in the latent semantic space. In contrast to traditional latent...
We present a directed Markov random field (MRF) model that combines n-gram models, probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs) and probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) fo...
Shaojun Wang, Shaomin Wang, Russell Greiner, Dale ...
Context-dependent word similarity can be measured over multiple cross-cutting dimensions. For example, lung and breath are similar thematically, while authoritative and superfici...
We present in this paper an approach to assessing student paraphrases in the intelligent tutoring system iSTART. The approach is based on measuring the semantic similarity between ...
Vasile Rus, Mihai C. Lintean, Arthur C. Graesser, ...