Word Embedding System

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A Word Embedding System is a text item embedding system that maps words into a vector representation.



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  1. The word2vec package contains embeddings for both capitalized and lowercase words. We convert all words to lowercase, and if a word has both lowercase and uppercase embeddings we use the lowercase version.

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Using such an encoding, there’s no meaningful comparison we can make between word vectors other than equality testing.

In word2vec, a distributed representation of a word is used. Take a vector with several hundred dimensions (say 1000). Each word is representated by a distribution of weights across those elements. So instead of a one-to-one mapping between an element in the vector and a word, the representation of a word is spread across all of the elements in the vector, and each element in the vector contributes to the definition of many words.

If I label the dimensions in a hypothetical word vector (there are no such pre-assigned labels in the algorithm of course), it might look a bit like this:

 :: Such a vector comes to represent in some abstract way the ‘meaning’ of a word. And as we’ll see next, simply by examining a large corpus it’s possible to learn word vectors that are able to capture the relationships between words in a surprisingly expressive way. We can also use the vectors as inputs to a neural network.

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