What is latent semantic analysis?

[swatijain2233]

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 I would Like to know that What is latent semantic analysis?

[Daniel]

What Is Latent Semantic Indexing?

To understand Latent Semantic Indexing, let’s start by looking at two important things that search engines do.

Search engines use complex algorithms to understand:

• Content (what a page of content is about)
• Search Intent (what people want to find when they search for a specific term)

Latent Semantic Indexing helps search engines accomplish these two tasks. It’s the part of the algorithm that identifies related words in content to better classify webpages and deliver more accurate search results.

By processing synonyms and understanding the relationship between words, the algorithm can interpret webpages more deeply and, therefore, deliver the right content to searchers.

LSI keywords are terms that are semantically related to the main keyword. A webpage with the main keyword “smartphones” may have the LSI keywords “iPhone,” “apps,” and “data package.”

Read here a great guide about LSI.

[RHCalvin]

Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a system used by Google and other major search engines. The contents of a webpage are crawled by a search engine and the most common words and phrases are collated and identified as the keywords for the page.