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by juxtaposicion 4114 days ago
It's my first time seeing the package, but looking over the docs it looks like it implements LSA. The major difference here is that word2vec dramatically outperforms LSA in a variety of tasks (http://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/678/what-are-...). My experience has been that the vector representations in LSA can be underwhelming and poorly performant. I can't comment on the Random Projection and Reflective Random Indexing techniques SemanticVectors implements.

This link is about document distances but still compares other techniques nicely: http://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/678/what-are-...

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Sorry, I should have specifically mentioned how it differs from random indexing/projection. I was immediately reminded of a similar inference example using random indexing/projection.

https://code.google.com/p/semanticvectors/wiki/PredicationBa...