Using Latent Semantic Analysis and the predication algorithm to improve extraction of meanings from a diagnostic corpus

Spanish Journal of Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 424-440

  Jorge Botana, Guillermo ^a   Olmos, Ricardo ^a   León, José Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discourse evaluation; Knowledge representation; Latent Semantic Analysis; LSA; Predication algorithm; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149089491     PISSN: 11387416     EISSN: 19882904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1138741600001815     Document Type: Article

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