On word embeddings - Part 1 Word embeddings popularized by word2vec are pervasive in current NLP applications. The history of word embeddings, however, goes back a lot further. This post explores the history of word embeddings in the context of language modelling. This post presents the most well-known models for learning word embeddings based on language modelling. Table of contents: A brief hist
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