An Overview of Latent Semantic Indexing
I’ve mentioned LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing a few times in my posts lately. I thought it might be a good idea to cover some of the basics.
Ok this may get a little technical so you might need a coffee. I’m sharing this with you so you understand the importance of LSI with your articles. We have to become more clever with what we do online in order to stay ahead of the pack.
Got your coffee?… Here goes…..
Latent semantic indexing is a technique that projects queries and documents into space with latent semantic dimensions.
In the latent semantic space, a query and a document are similar even if they don’t share any of the same terms if their terms are semantically similar.
LSI is similarly metric to word overlap measures. LSI has fewer dimensions than the original space and is a method for dimensionality reduction.
This reduction takes a set of objects that exist in a high-dimensional space and rearranges them and represents them in a lower dimensional space instead.
They are often represented in two or three-dimensional space just for the purpose of visualization. Latent Semantic Indexing, or LSI is a mathematical application technique sometimes known as singular value decomposition.
The projection into the LSI space is chosen so that the representations in the space of origin are changed as little as possible. Then it is measured by the sum of the squares of the difference.
There are several different mappings for latent semantic indexing from high dimensional to low dimensional spaces.
LSI chooses the optimal mapping in a sense that minimizes the distance. Choosing the number of dimensions is a unique problem.
A reduction can remove much of the noise while keeping too few dimensions may lose important information. LSI performance is improved considerably after ten to twenty dimensions and peaks at seventy to one hundred dimensions.
Then it slowly begins to diminish again. There is a pattern of performance that is observed with other datasets as well.
Now didn’t that just do your head in?
Ok, to put it in simpler terms.
Search engines are starting to use LSI, so if you can use a product that takes advantage of LSI already then you are ahead of the pack….
….RIGHT?
So keep this in mind, like I do, when I research what will make it easier for me to accomplish my goals with my Internet Business I always try to keep up with what search engines are looking for, and right now that is LSI content.
Ian
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