Word embedding is a fundamental technique in natural language processing (NLP) that represents words as dense vectors in a multi-dimensional space. This representation captures the semantic and syntactic relationships between words, enabling various NLP tasks such as text classification, sentiment analysis, and machine translation.
What is Word Embedding?
Word embedding is a method to represent words as vectors in a high-dimensional space. Each word is represented by a vector of floating-point numbers, where the distance between vectors reflects the semantic similarity between words. The most common types of word embeddings include:
- Word2Vec: This method uses neural networks to learn word embeddings by predicting context words from a center word or vice versa.
- GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation is a pre-trained word embedding model that uses global word-word co-occurrence statistics to learn word vectors.
Applications of Word Embedding
Word embeddings have a wide range of applications in NLP, including:
- Text Classification: Classifying text into predefined categories such as sports, politics, or finance.
- Sentiment Analysis: Determining the sentiment of a text, such as positive, negative, or neutral.
- Machine Translation: Translating text from one language to another.
- Entity Recognition: Identifying entities in text, such as names, places, and organizations.
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In this multi-dimensional space, words that are semantically similar are closer together, while words with dissimilar meanings are farther apart. This property makes word embeddings a powerful tool for various NLP tasks.
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