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Python Natural Language Processing
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Python Natural Language Processing

by Jalaj Thanaki
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
486 pages
13h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Advantages of word2vec

As we have seen, word2vec is a very good technique for generating distributional similarity. There are other advantages of it as well, which I've listed here:

  • Word2vec concepts are really easy to understand. They are not so complex that you really don't know what is happening behind the scenes.
  • Using word2vec is simple and it has very powerful architecture. It is fast to train compared to other techniques.
  • Human effort for training is really minimal because, here, human tagged data is not needed.
  • This technique works for both a small amount of datasets and a large amount of datasets. So it is an easy-to-scale model.
  • Once you understand the concept and algorithms, then you can replicate the whole concept and algorithms ...
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ISBN: 9781787121423