Semantic Latent Variable Model

A Semantic Latent Variable Model is a latent variable model that is a semantic model.

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Syntactic Latent Model.
• See: Semantic Latent Modeling, Latent Semantic Indexing.

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References

2013

• (Huang et al., 2013) ⇒ Po-Sen Huang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Alex Acero, and Larry Heck. (2013). “Learning Deep Structured Semantic Models for Web Search Using Clickthrough Data.” In: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Conference on information & knowledge management. ISBN:978-1-4503-2263-8 doi:10.1145/2505515.2505665
  • QUOTE: Latent semantic models, such as LSA, intend to map a query to its relevant documents at the semantic level where keyword-based matching often fails.

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