LSAfun-package: Computations based on Latent Semantic Analysis
In codymarquart/LSAfun: Applied Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) Functions
Description
The focus of this package
How to obtain a semantic space
Author(s)
Description
Offers methods and functions for working with Vector Space Models of semantics, such as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA).
Such models are created by algorithms working on a corpus of text documents. Those algorithms achieve a high-dimensional vector representation for word (and document) meanings. The exact LSA algorithm is described in Martin & Berry (2007).
Such a representation allows for the computation of word (and document) similarities, for example by computing cosine values of angles between two vectors.
The focus of this package
This package is not designed to create LSA semantic spaces. In R, this functionality is provided by the package lsa. The focus of the package LSAfun is to provide functions to be applied on existing LSA (or other) semantic spaces, such as
Similarity Computations
Neighborhood Computations
Applied Functions
Composition Methods
How to obtain a semantic space
LSAfun comes with one example LSA space, the wonderland space.
This package can also directly use LSA semantic spaces created with the lsa-package. Thus, it allows the user to use own LSA spaces.
(Note that the function lsa gives a list of three matrices. Of those, the term matrix U should be used.)
The lsa package works with (very) small corpora, but gets difficulties in scaling up to larger corpora. In this case, it is recommended to use specialized software for creating semantic spaces, such as
S-Space (Jurgens & Stevens, 2010), available here
SemanticVectors (Widdows & Ferraro, 2008), available here
gensim (Rehurek & Sojka, 2010), available here
DISSECT (Dinu, Pham, & Baroni, 2013), available here
Another possibility is to use one of the LSA spaces provided at http://www.lingexp.uni-tuebingen.de/z2/LSAspaces. These are stored in the .rda format. To load one of these spaces into the R workspace, save them into a directory, set the working directory to that directory, and load the space using load().
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Fritz Günther
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Description The focus of this package How to obtain a semantic space Author(s)
Description
Offers methods and functions for working with Vector Space Models of semantics, such as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA).
Such models are created by algorithms working on a corpus of text documents. Those algorithms achieve a high-dimensional vector representation for word (and document) meanings. The exact LSA algorithm is described in Martin & Berry (2007).
Such a representation allows for the computation of word (and document) similarities, for example by computing cosine values of angles between two vectors.
The focus of this package
This package is not designed to create LSA semantic spaces. In R, this functionality is provided by the package lsa. The focus of the package LSAfun is to provide functions to be applied on existing LSA (or other) semantic spaces, such as
Similarity Computations
Neighborhood Computations
Applied Functions
Composition Methods
How to obtain a semantic space
LSAfun comes with one example LSA space, the wonderland space.
This package can also directly use LSA semantic spaces created with the lsa-package. Thus, it allows the user to use own LSA spaces.
(Note that the function lsa gives a list of three matrices. Of those, the term matrix U should be used.)
The lsa package works with (very) small corpora, but gets difficulties in scaling up to larger corpora. In this case, it is recommended to use specialized software for creating semantic spaces, such as
S-Space (Jurgens & Stevens, 2010), available here
SemanticVectors (Widdows & Ferraro, 2008), available here
gensim (Rehurek & Sojka, 2010), available here
DISSECT (Dinu, Pham, & Baroni, 2013), available here
Another possibility is to use one of the LSA spaces provided at http://www.lingexp.uni-tuebingen.de/z2/LSAspaces. These are stored in the .rda format. To load one of these spaces into the R workspace, save them into a directory, set the working directory to that directory, and load the space using load().
Author(s)
Fritz Günther
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