Questions tagged [cbow]

The skip-gram and continuous bag of words (CBOW) are two different types of word2vec models. What are the main differences between them? What are the pros and cons of both methods?

The word continuous in mathematics is a property of either a set or a function that says that the underlying object has no discontinuity in the range mentioned. If the object is a set, then $[-1,1]$ is a continuous one while $\{-1, +1\}$ is not.…

I am a mathematics student who is learning NLP, so I have paid a high amount of attention on the mathematics used in the subject, but my interpretations may or may not be right sometimes. Please correct me if any of them are incorrect or do not make…

In his article word2vec Parameter Learning Explained Xin Rong uses the dot notation as an index for matrix (at the second page in the first formula). $$ h = W^{T}x = W^{T}_{(k,\cdot)} := {v^{T}}_{w_I} \tag 1$$ If I understand the notation correctly,…