Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
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March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
December 11th, 2008 - 8:15 pm § in Uncategorized
LSA/LSI source code & tools
I’m often asked by students, researchers in other areas and sometimes SEO people where they can find LSI/LSA source code/tools. My favourite beginners tutorial on LSI is by Genevieve Gorrell from Sheffield University. The term is LSA mostly used in computer science these days but it doesn[...]

