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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Computational Approaches to Sentence Completion
This paper studies the problem of sentencelevel semantic coherence by answering SATstyle sentence completion questions. These questions test the ability of algorithms to distingui...
Geoffrey Zweig, John C. Platt, Christopher Meek, C...
SDM
2011
SIAM
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13 years 3 months ago
Sparse Latent Semantic Analysis
Latent semantic analysis (LSA), as one of the most popular unsupervised dimension reduction tools, has a wide range of applications in text mining and information retrieval. The k...
Xi Chen, Yanjun Qi, Bing Bai, Qihang Lin, Jaime G....
HCI
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Discovering Context: Classifying Tweets through a Semantic Transform Based on Wikipedia
By mapping messages into a large context, we can compute the distances between them, and then classify them. We test this conjecture on Twitter messages: Messages are mapped onto t...
Yegin Genc, Yasuaki Sakamoto, Jeffrey V. Nickerson
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Simulating Human Ratings on Word Concreteness
Psychological measures of concreteness of words are generally estimated by having humans provide ratings of words on a concreteness scale. Due to the limits of this technique, con...
Shi Feng, Zhiqiang Cai, Scott A. Crossley, Daniell...
MMM
2011
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Correlated PLSA for Image Clustering
Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) has become a popular topic model for image clustering. However, the traditional PLSA method considers each image (document) independen...
Peng Li, Jian Cheng, Zechao Li, Hanqing Lu
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Text Summarization of Turkish Texts using Latent Semantic Analysis
Text summarization solves the problem of extracting important information from huge amount of text data. There are various methods in the literature that aim to find out well-form...
Makbule Ozsoy, Ilyas Cicekli, Ferda Nur Alpaslan
JOCN
2011
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13 years 7 months ago
Establishing Causal Coherence across Sentences: An ERP Study
■ This study examined neural activity associated with establishing causal relationships across sentences during on-line comprehension. ERPs were measured while participants read...
Gina R. Kuperberg, Martin Paczynski, Tali Ditman
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Near-synonym Lexical Choice in Latent Semantic Space
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...
Tong Wang, Graeme Hirst
ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Cross-Lingual Latent Topic Extraction
Probabilistic latent topic models have recently enjoyed much success in extracting and analyzing latent topics in text in an unsupervised way. One common deficiency of existing to...
Duo Zhang, Qiaozhu Mei, ChengXiang Zhai
JOI
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
Diffusion of latent semantic analysis as a research tool: A social network analysis approach
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a relatively new research tool with a wide range of applications in different fields ranging from discourse analysis to cognitive science, from i...
Yasar Tonta, Hamid R. Darvish