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Latent semantic analysis

Learning from text: Matching readers and texts by latent semantic analysis

Michael B.W. Wolfe Department of Psychology (Cognitive), University of Colorado, Campus Box 345, Boulder, CO, 80309 E-mail: [email protected]
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M.E. Schreiner Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Bob Rehder Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Darrell Laham Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Peter W. Foltz Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University
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Walter Kintsch Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Thomas K Landauer Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Pages 309-336 | Published online: 11 Nov 2009

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