I'm interested in applications of Latent Semantic Analysis in IR and text mining. Evaluation of LSA effectiveness for Polish texts was part of my master thesis. The system I built for experiment purposes is called "Platypus".

March 2009: the book on computer dictionaries I co-authored is published.

Sept 2nd 2007: just got back from the ESSIR 2007 workshop in Glasgow.

Oct 8th 2007: just got back from the Language and Technology 2007 conference in Poznañ, Poland; there goes my presentation: "LSA as an associative text retrieval tool"

• Agnieszka Figiel, Automatic similarity evaluation of Polish texts (Automatyczna ocena podobieństwa tekstów języka polskiego), Master's thesis,
  AGH Kraków University of Science and Technology, September 2006
• Agnieszka Figiel, LSA as an associative text retrieval tool,
  Proceedings of 3rd Language & Technology Conference, 2007
• Agnieszka Figiel, Text as an information template -- automatic similarity evaluation of texts with Latent Semantic Analysis (Tekst jako wzorzec informacyjny -- automatyczna ocena podobie.stwa tematycznego tekstów za pomoc. Latent Semantic Analysis),
  in Wiesław Lubaszewski, Słowniki komputerowe i automatyczna ekstrakcja informacji z tekstu,
  AGH University of Science and Technology, 2009