Peter Wiemer-Hastings will be here on Sept 22 to talk about an NLP technique known as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). In preparation for that visit, please make sure you that you have read the following by Sept 20. For CS 8761 students, this does count as "course material" so I reserve the right to include it in quizzes/tests, etc. (The same is true of the reading material for Jill Burstein's visit).
I'd read them in the order shown below - the first is an introductory article on LSA, and then two more technial papers by Peter. Also, you can try some online demos of LSA at http://lsa.colorado.edu. Enjoy! -- Landauer, T. K., Foltz, P. W., & Laham, D. (1998). Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis. Discourse Processes, 25, 259-284. http://lsa.colorado.edu/papers/dp1.LSAintro.pdf Wiemer-Hastings, P., Graesser, A., Harter, D., and the Tutoring Research Group, (1998). The foundations and architecture of Autotutor. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, San Antonio, Texas (pp. 334-343). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. http://reed.cs.depaul.edu/peterwh/papers/its98.pdf Wiemer-Hastings, P., & Zipitria, I. (2001). Rules for syntax, vectors for semantics, in the Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. http://reed.cs.depaul.edu/peterwh/papers/cogsci01.pdf -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/x3XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
