Scott Deerwester

Scott Craig Deerwester (born 1956) is a notable computer scientist recognized as one of the inventors of latent semantic analysis (LSA),^[1]^[2] a significant method in the field of natural language processing. He has held academic positions at Colgate University, the University of Chicago, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 1991, Deerwester relocated to Hong Kong, where he transitioned to work in the humanitarian sector. His expertise encompasses information and data science, software systems architecture, and data modeling, reflecting his commitment to applying technology to address complex societal challenges.

History

Scott Deerwester began his academic career in the United States, contributing to LSA’s development during his tenure at Colgate University and the University of Chicago.

Early Life

Scott C Deerwester was born in Rossville, Indiana, United States. He attended Purdue University for college studies and published his first research article as Alumni of the Purdue University ^[3]

Publications

References

^ Deerwester, Scott; Dumais, Susan T.; Furnas, George W.; Landauer, Thomas K.; Harshman, Richard (September 1990). "Indexing by latent semantic analysis". Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 41 (6): 391–407. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199009)41:6<391::AID-ASI1>3.0.CO;2-9. ISSN 0002-8231.
^ Dumais, S. T.; Furnas, G. W.; Landauer, T. K.; Deerwester, S.; Harshman, R. (1988-05-01). "Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '88. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 281–285. doi:10.1145/57167.57214. ISBN 978-0-201-14237-2.
^ Deerwester, Scott. "‪The retrieval expert model of information retrieval‬". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

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[1] Deerwester, Scott; Dumais, Susan T.; Furnas, George W.; Landauer, Thomas K.; Harshman, Richard (September 1990). "Indexing by latent semantic analysis". Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 41 (6): 391–407. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199009)41:6<391::AID-ASI1>3.0.CO;2-9. ISSN 0002-8231.

[2] Dumais, S. T.; Furnas, G. W.; Landauer, T. K.; Deerwester, S.; Harshman, R. (1988-05-01). "Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '88. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 281–285. doi:10.1145/57167.57214. ISBN 978-0-201-14237-2.

[3] Deerwester, Scott. "‪The retrieval expert model of information retrieval‬". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

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