Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn Part F130202, Issue , 1988, Pages 281-285

  Dumais, Susan T ^a   Furnas, George W ^a   Landauer, Thomas K ^a   Deerwester, Scott ^b   Harshman, Richard ^c  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SEMANTICS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; VECTOR SPACES;

DIMENSIONAL VECTORS; HIGHER-ORDER STRUCTURE; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; SEMANTIC STRUCTURES; TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION; TEXTUAL INFORMATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 85031726785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/57167.57214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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