How do we decide the number of dimensions for Latent semantic analysis ?

I have been working on latent semantic analysis lately. I have implemented it in java by making use of the Jama package.

Here is the code:

    Matrix vtranspose ; 
    a = new Matrix(termdoc);  
    termdoc = a.getArray(); 
    a = a.transpose() ; 
    SingularValueDecomposition sv =new SingularValueDecomposition(a) ; 
    u = sv.getU();
    v = sv.getV(); 
    s = sv.getS();
    vtranspose = v.transpose() ; // we obtain this as a result of svd 

    uarray = u.getArray();
    sarray = s.getArray(); 
    varray = vtranspose.getArray(); 
    if(semantics.maketerms.nodoc>50)
    {

        sarray_mod = new double[50][50]; 
        uarray_mod = new double[uarray.length][50];
        varray_mod = new double[50][varray.length]; 
        move(sarray,50,50,sarray_mod); 
        move(uarray,uarray.length,50,uarray_mod); 
        move(varray,50,varray.length,varray_mod); 
        e = new Matrix(uarray_mod); 
        f = new Matrix(sarray_mod);
        g = new Matrix(varray_mod);
        Matrix temp  =e.times(f); 
        result = temp.times(g);  

    }
    else 
    {
        Matrix temp = u.times(s); 
        result = temp.times(vtranspose); 
    }
    result = result.transpose(); 
    results = result.getArray() ; 

    return results ; 

But how do we determine the number of dimensions? Is there a method to determine the number of dimensions to which the system should be reduced to obtain best results? What other parameters do we consider for effective performance of LSA?