I am deeply indebted to Dr. Michael Berry, my major advisor, for his kind guidance and support. I also thank Dr. Susan Dumais, director of the Information Sciences Research Group at Bellcore, for her technical advice. In addition, she graciously allowed us
TowardLarge-ScaleInformationRetrievalUsingLatentSemantic
Indexing
AThesis
Presentedforthe
MasterofScienceDegree
TheUniversityofTennessee,Knoxville
ToddA.Letsche
August1996