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Ed Grefenstette: Language, Semantics, Cohere

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Using Distributional Semantics in Computer Science

The core notion of these approaches is you'll understand language by understanding how to use it. In computer science, we would build representation of words simply by looking at the frequency of co-occurrence statistics with other words. This was kind of a precursor to models like Word2Vec and pretty much the embeddings that we know in left today.

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