What’s Behind Word2vec

A primer on word embeddings

An outline of ideas and equations for word embeddings

The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) requires knowledge of linguistics, statistics, and computer science. As such, it can be challenging to begin a new study or project without significant background research in the disciplines that you’re less familiar with. It can also be challenging to move seamlessly across these disciplines because their nomenclature and equation formats differ.

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