Diagnostics of Semantic Word Spaces

Abstract

In collaboration with Gavagai, a company that develops automated and scalable methods for retrieving actionable intelligence from dynamic data, I have been studying semantic word spaces and topology. In this bachelor’s thesis, with help from computational topology, I introduce new ways to describe properties of these semantic word spaces, so called barcodes. I develop a measure to describe barcodes of betti number zero, prove its validity and discuss its implications