(continued from Part III)
Now that I know where the documents are located in the landscape, I have experimented with ways to estimate where the topic map topics are supposed to be. My hypothesis is that if I can determine the distance of each document to every topic, I can triangulate the topics.
Topic Positions
Below (larger version in the attachments) is a new rendering of the MapReduce theme:
It shows the themes derived from the semantic corpus (documents + semantic network). Compare this with the positions of topics: