A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge.
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How do people know as much as they do with as little information as they get? The problem takes many forms; learning vocabulary from text is an especially dramatic and convenient case for research. A new general theory of acquired similarity and knowledge representation, latent semantic analysis (LSA), is presented and used to successfully simulate such learning and several other psycholinguistic phenomena. By inducing global knowledge indirectly from local co-occurrence data in a large body of representative text, LSA acquired knowledge about the full vocabulary of English at a comparable rate to schoolchildren. LSA uses no prior linguistic or perceptual similarity knowledge; it is based solely on a general mathematical learning method that achieves powerful inductive effects by extracting the right number of dimensions (e.g., 300) to represent objects and contexts. Relations to other theories, phenomena, and problems are sketched. Prologue "How much do we know at any time? Much more, or so I believe, than we know we know!"--Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger A typical American seventh grader knows the meaning of 10-15 words today that she did not know yesterday. She must
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Latent semantic analysis reveals the vast amount of information embodied in statistical relations between words and the larger contexts in which they occur.
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- Authors
- Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 1997-04
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 211-240
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
- W1983578042
- Cited by
- 6,282
- References
- 103
- Citations by year
- 2026: 108 · 2025: 117 · 2024: 158 · 2023: 236 · 2022: 301 · 2021: 264 · 2020: 321 · 2019: 312 · 2018: 322 · 2017: 268 · 2016: 312 · 2015: 351 · 2014: 354 · 2013: 323 · 2012: 312
- FWCI
- 62.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Keywords
- latent semantic analysis, vocabulary acquisition, knowledge representation, inductive learning, co-occurrence data, psycholinguistics, word meaning, dimensionality reduction
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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