{
  "id": 105324,
  "title": "What is Embeddings?",
  "url": "/competitions/quora-insincere-questions-classification/discussion/105324",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-08-22T10:52:29.586367600Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi,\nI am new to this field. It is my first competition. But i am unable to understand what is the use of Embeddings?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "605400",
      "postDate": "08/22/2019 10:52:29",
      "content": "<p>Hi,\nI am new to this field. It is my first competition. But i am unable to understand what is the use of Embeddings?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi,\nI am new to this field. It is my first competition. But i am unable to understand what is the use of Embeddings?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "605415",
      "postDate": "08/22/2019 11:09:16",
      "content": "<p>In simple terms, conversion of a word into its vector representation.\n<strong>Why vector representation</strong>: Machine Learning Algorithms does not understand text directly hence we have to convert it into something that computers can understand i.e numerical representation.</p>\n\n<p><em>Read the articles below for detailed explanation.</em></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://jalammar.github.io/images/word2vec/word2vec.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n\n<p>Here's a list of articles:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/06/word-embeddings-count-word2veec/\">An Intuitive Understanding of Word Embeddings: From Count Vectors to Word2Vec</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/\">The Illustrated Word2vec</a></p></li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "In simple terms, conversion of a word into its vector representation.\n**Why vector representation**: Machine Learning Algorithms does not understand text directly hence we have to convert it into something that computers can understand i.e numerical representation.\n\n*Read the articles below for detailed explanation.*\n\n![](http://jalammar.github.io/images/word2vec/word2vec.png)\n \nHere's a list of articles:\n\n- [An Intuitive Understanding of Word Embeddings: From Count Vectors to Word2Vec](https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/06/word-embeddings-count-word2veec/)\n\n-  [The Illustrated Word2vec](http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "605418",
      "postDate": "08/22/2019 11:11:27",
      "content": "<p>Vectorization i know but why they have provided seperate file? That is my point of confusion.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Vectorization i know but why they have provided seperate file? That is my point of confusion.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "637954",
      "postDate": "10/01/2019 11:56:51",
      "content": "<p>same confusion </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "same confusion",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 605415,
      "author_name": "theainerd",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/22/2019 11:09:16",
      "content": "<p>In simple terms, conversion of a word into its vector representation.\n<strong>Why vector representation</strong>: Machine Learning Algorithms does not understand text directly hence we have to convert it into something that computers can understand i.e numerical representation.</p>\n\n<p><em>Read the articles below for detailed explanation.</em></p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http://jalammar.github.io/images/word2vec/word2vec.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n\n<p>Here's a list of articles:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p><a href=\"https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/06/word-embeddings-count-word2veec/\">An Intuitive Understanding of Word Embeddings: From Count Vectors to Word2Vec</a></p></li>\n<li><p><a href=\"http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/\">The Illustrated Word2vec</a></p></li>\n</ul>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 605418,
      "author_name": "martandsay",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/22/2019 11:11:27",
      "content": "<p>Vectorization i know but why they have provided seperate file? That is my point of confusion.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 637954,
          "author_name": "ramlaa",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "10/01/2019 11:56:51",
          "content": "<p>same confusion </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "605400": "Hi,\nI am new to this field. It is my first competition. But i am unable to understand what is the use of Embeddings?",
    "605415": "In simple terms, conversion of a word into its vector representation.\n**Why vector representation**: Machine Learning Algorithms does not understand text directly hence we have to convert it into something that computers can understand i.e numerical representation.\n\n*Read the articles below for detailed explanation.*\n\n![](http://jalammar.github.io/images/word2vec/word2vec.png)\n \nHere's a list of articles:\n\n- [An Intuitive Understanding of Word Embeddings: From Count Vectors to Word2Vec](https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/06/word-embeddings-count-word2veec/)\n\n-  [The Illustrated Word2vec](http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/)",
    "605418": "Vectorization i know but why they have provided seperate file? That is my point of confusion.",
    "637954": "same confusion"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}