Word Vectors with Word2vec

Beyond the Black Box Workshop: Word Vectors with Word2vec

Teddy Roland, University of California Berkeley

NB Please note change of time: this workshop will now run from 3pm-5.30pm

Word vectors, which have been developed by computer scientists in the field of machine learning, offer ways of representing the relationships between terms in a corpus in ways that provide “a spatial analogy to relationships between words” (Schmidt) and that suggest new ways to understand the formation and operation of discourses. This workshop uses one model for generating word vectors, word2vec, to explain how distance between terms is calculated by these models, and will show participants how to create, and how to begin to interpret, their own word embedding models.

This workshop will require participants to bring their own laptops.

Room 1.15, Main Library (Videoconferencing suite, opposite the uCreate Studio)