Word Embedding
Introduction
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How does the embedder turn words into numbers that carry meaning? Starting from psychologist Heinz Werner's observation that children learn word meanings from context — the same experience you have inferring an unfamiliar word from surrounding text — this post connects that human intuition to how word embeddings are learned.