Word Vectors Intuition and Co-Occurrence Matrices

Ivo Bernardo
Towards Data Science
12 min readAug 16, 2021

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If you have done some kind of research on Natural Language Processing, you have probably stumbled upon the concept of word vectors. And while the concept seems intuitive, it might be a bit difficult to understand when you have no prior knowledge in Data Science or Machine Learning.

In this post, we are going to check some intuition behind building word vectors and learn why they…

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