How Does Latent Semantic Analysis Work? A Visualisation Approach
arXiv:1402.0543v12 citations
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This provides an intuitive explanation for researchers or students learning about LSA, but it is incremental as it focuses on visualization rather than new methods.
The paper tackles the problem of explaining how latent semantic analysis (LSA) extracts semantic meaning from documents, and it demonstrates this through visualizations and analogies to show that LSA blurs word distinctions.
By using a small example, an analogy to photographic compression, and a simple visualization using heatmaps, we show that latent semantic analysis (LSA) is able to extract what appears to be semantic meaning of words from a set of documents by blurring the distinctions between the words.