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Peer reviewedRehder, Bob; Schreiner, M. E.; Wolfe, Michael B. W.; Laham, Darrell; Kintsch, Walter; Landauer, Thomas K – Discourse Processes, 1998
Provides a technical analysis of the factors involved in the ability of latent semantic analysis to assess student knowledge (grading essays and matching students with appropriate instructional texts). Addresses the role of technical vocabulary, how long the student essays should be, and how one deals with the directionality of knowledge in the…
Descriptors: Essays, Language Research, Research Methodology, Semantics
Peer reviewedLandauer, Thomas K; Foltz, Peter W.; Laham, Darrell – Discourse Processes, 1998
Offers an introduction to the theory and implementation of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a theory and method for extracting and representing the contextual-usage meaning of words by statistical computations applied to a large corpus of text. Gives an overview of applications and modeling of human knowledge to which LSA has been applied. (SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Knowledge Representation
