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  • Natural Language Processing
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Vector semantic models, such as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), represent words and documents as high-dimensional vectors.
  • These vector representations capture semantic meaning, allowing for quantitative comparisons of semantic similarity.
  • Existing methods for LSA computations can be complex to implement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the R package LSAfun, designed for accessible computations using Latent Semantic Analysis.
  • To provide a user-friendly interface for various LSA-based functions.

Main Methods:

  • The LSAfun package utilizes pre-created LSA spaces.
  • It implements functions for similarity computations, neighborhood analysis, and plotting of semantic structures.
  • The package includes applied functions for text coherence, question answering, and summarization, alongside composition methods for phrases.

Main Results:

  • LSAfun facilitates direct calculation of semantic similarity between words, word lists, and documents.
  • The package enables the identification of semantically similar words (neighborhoods) and visualization of these relationships using Multidimensional Scaling.
  • Applied functions demonstrate LSA's utility in text coherence assessment, question answering, and text summarization.

Conclusions:

  • LSAfun provides a comprehensive and convenient R package for researchers and practitioners working with Latent Semantic Analysis.
  • The package simplifies complex LSA computations, promoting wider adoption and application of semantic modeling techniques in text analysis.