A Comparison of SVD,SVR,ADE and IRR for Latent Semantic Indexing

摘要

Recently,singular value decomposition (SVD) and its variants,which are singular value rescaling (SVR),approximation dimension equalization (ADE) and iterative residual rescaling (IRR),were proposed to conduct the job of latent semantic indexing (LSI). Although they are all based on linear algebraic method for tern-document matrix computation,which is SVD,the basic motivations behind them concerning LSI are different from each other.In this paper,a series of experiments are conducted to examine their effectiveness of LSI for the practical application of text mining,including information retrieval,text categorization and similarity measure. The experimental results demonstrate that SVD and SVR have better performances than other proposed LSI methods in the above mentioned applications.Meanwhile,ADE and IRR,because of the too much difference between their approximation matrix and original termdocument matrix in Frobenius norm,can not derive good performances for text mining applications using LSI.