In dictionaries:
Latent semantic analysis
a technique in natural language processing, in particular distributional semantics, of analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms.
Probabilistic latent semantic analysis
Probabilistic latent semantic analysis, also known as probabilistic latent semantic indexing (PLSI, especially in information retrieval circles) is a statistical technique for the analysis of two-mode and co-occurrence data.
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