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I know you're all busy, but this is a fascinating topic whether you are a
computer person or not.  There's a real intellectual challenge in this
work...See you all there! Lise

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>Hello all,
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>Don't forget about this Wednesday's LingCircle: 11/18, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.,
>Hellems 81.
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>Come to the final exciting even of the semester (yes, it's almost that
>time!)
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>Darrell Laham, who works closely with Dr. Tom Landauer, will be presenting
>on Latent Semantic Analysis.  Come find out about it, and share some great
>snacks with your peers.
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>SALSA: Science and Applications of Latent Semantic Analysis
>"Some like it hot"
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>In this presentation Darrell will introduce Latent Semantic Analysis as:
>1) a theory of the acquisition, induction, and representation of
>knowledge, 2) a system for computational modeling of cognitive processes,
>and 3) an Artificial Intelligence system used in educational and
>industrial applications.
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>Using mathematical and statistical analyses of large text corpora, LSA
>models have mimicked human response data in a number of areas.  I will
>review some of these models and discuss LSA's claims and its limitations.  I
>will also present the applications and demonstrations available at the SALSA
>lab's website http://LSA.Colorado.edu/ 
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Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-8042; fax 303-492-4416

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