Word Embeddings, Explained

In natural language processing, we work with words. However, computers cannot directly understand words, necessitating their conversion into numerical representations. These numeric representations, known as vectors or embeddings, comprise numbers that can be either interpretable or non-interpretable by humans. In this blog, we will delve into the advancements made in learning these word representations over time.

1 N-grams

Figure 1: N-gram vector representation of a sentence (image by author)