Text By the Bay

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing and information retrieval that seeks to better understand the latent relationships and concepts in large corpuses. In this talk, we’ll walk through what it looks like to apply LSA to the full set of documents in English Wikipedia, using Apache Spark. Harnessing the Stanford CoreNLP library for lemmatization and MLlib’s scalable SVD implementation for uncovering a lower-dimensional representation of the data, we’ll undertake the modest task of enabling queries against the full extent of human knowledge, based on latent semantic relationships.