Week 08

Word Embeddings: What are they and how to estimate?

Author

Tiago Ventura

Published

March 13, 2024

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.”

  • Jay Alanmar, The Illustrated Word2vec

  • Spirling and Rodriguez, Word embedding: What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research.

Slides