Week 08
Word Embeddings: What are they and how to estimate?
Topics
What are word-embeddings?
When and how can we use them?
What? Topic models again?
Is this still a bag of words?
Readings
Required Readings
[GMB] - Chapter 8.
[SLP] Chapter 6, “Vector Semantics and Embeddings.”
Spirling and Rodriguez, Word embedding: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research.