Algorithm to find related words in a text

Question

I would like to have a word (e.g. \"Apple) and process a text (or maybe more). I\'d like to come up with related terms. For example: process a document for Apple and find that i

Answer 1

The technique that you are looking for is called Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). It is also sometimes called Latent Semantic Indexing. The technique operates on the idea that related concepts occur together in text. It uses statistics to build the word relationships. Given a large enough corpus of documents it will definitely solve your problem of finding related words.