arXiv:1402.3722v1[cs.CL]15Feb2014 word2vec Explained: Deriving Mikolov et al.’s Negative-Sampling Word-Embedding Method Yoav Goldberg and Omer Levy {yoav.goldberg,omerlevy}@gmail.com February 14, 2014 The word2vec software of Tomas Mikolov and colleagues1 has gained a lot of traction lately, and provides state-of-the-art word embeddings. The learning models behind the software are described in tw