Very broadly, Word2vec models are two-layer neural networks that take a text corpus as input and output a vector for every word in that corpus. After fitting, the words with similar meaning have their vectors close to each other, that is, the distance between them is small compared to the distance between the vectors for words that have very different meanings.
Nowadays, Word2vec has become a standard in natural language processing problems and often it provides very useful insights into information retrieval tasks. For this particular problem, we will be using the Google news vectors. This is a pretrained Word2vec model trained on the Google News corpus.
Every word, when represented by its Word2vec vector, ...
