Word2vec – a neural network-based approach to learning word representation
"You shall know a word by the company it keeps."
– J.R. Firth
This statement, uttered by J.R. Firth in 1957, lies at the very foundation of Word2vec, as Word2vec techniques use the context of a given word to learn its semantics. Word2vec is a groundbreaking approach that allows to learn the meaning of words without any human intervention. Also, Word2vec learns numerical representations of words by looking at the words surrounding a given word.
We can test the correctness of the preceding quote by imagining a real-world scenario. Imagine you are sitting for an exam and you find this sentence in your first question: "Mary is a very stubborn child. Her pervicacious nature always ...
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