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Postdoc in the Parallel Meaning Bank project (https://t.co/jqbmOwZ6XC) @ University of Groningen
May 27, 2019 7 tweets 3 min read
1/7 Do word embeddings really say that man is to doctor as woman is to nurse? Apparently not. Check out this thread for a description of a short paper I co-wrote with Malvina Nissim and Rob van der Goot, available here: arxiv.org/abs/1905.09866 #NLProc #bias 2/7 The original analogy codes, both w2v and gensim, implement a constraint whereby no input vector can be returned. In any query A:B :: C:D, one could never get an answer D such that D==A or D==B or D==C simply because the code does not allow it.