AWhat changed
Applied SVD to term-document matrices for latent semantic indexing and retrieval.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact five-author 1990 paper. It does not absorb all matrix factorization, probabilistic latent semantic indexing, later topic models or universal semantic interpretation claims.
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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact five-author 1990 paper. It does not absorb all matrix factorization, probabilistic latent semantic indexing, later topic models or universal semantic interpretation claims.
Contributors
- Scott Deerwester · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Susan T. Dumais · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- George W. Furnas · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Thomas K. Landauer · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Richard Harshman · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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