It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology can be, to a large extent, attributed to the use of very high-dimensional vectors for language representation. These high-dimensional, 764 dimensions is common, vector representations are called embeddings and are aimed at capturing semantic meaning and relationships between linguistic items. Although the idea of using vector representation for words has been around for many years, the interest in word embedding took a quantum jump with Tomáš Mikolov’s Word2vec algorithm in 2013. Since then, many methods for generating word embeddings, for example GloVe and BERT , have been developed. Before moving on further, let's see briefly how word embedding methods work. Word Embedding: How is it Performed? I am going to explain how word embedding is done using the Word2vec method. This method uses a linear encoder-decoder network with a single hidden layer. The input layer o
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