Talk:Latent semantic mapping

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Isn't this exactly the same thing as Latent Semantic Analysis? How is it different beyond the fact that one person (cited in the references) decided to make up this name? The author works at Apple and is probably responsible for the Mac OSX API that's called "latent semantic mapping."

I just saw a talk by him about "Latent semantic mapping" and still didn't understand how it's different.

I think this is a case it should be merged with the page on LSA. --Brendan642 (talk) 21:57, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]