From: Katy Borner <katy@indiana.edu>
Cc: Rich Shiffrin <shiffrin@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: LSA Alternative and ad hoc lab meeting Friday

Some of you may like to join this meeting with me,
k

Rich Shiffrin wrote:

> MEETING FRIDAY AT 4 PM IN PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE ROOM 128.
>
> I received a preprint/draft this AM of a most interesting paper. LSA and
> other scaling programs produce semantic spaces for words based on
> documents and contexts; the new approach provides what appears to be a
> much improved alternative.
>
>  It is by Mark Steyvers and a very smart grad student of Tenenbaum's
> named Tom Griffiths. Title: "A probabilistic aproach to semantic
> representation." (6 Pages). I made 15 copies and will have some in my
> office and leave some in the lab. At first glance it looks like a big
> step forward in producing a sensible semantic representation for words.
> For those finding it inconvenient to pick up a copy, it is on the web:
>
> http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~gruffydd/papers/semrep.pdf
>
> I am calling an ad hoc meeting of those likely to find this of great
> interest (please invite your students and postdocs). The meeting will be
> in the Psychology Conference Room 128, at 4 PM Friday, Mar 1.
> (The social group has kindly consented to switch to Room 137, and
> Goldstone's lab meeting, normally in 137 will be joining us in 128).
>
> For those in Shiffrin's lab. we will start in the conference room 128 at
> 3 PM and take the first hour to discuss research topics with Dave Huber.