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Re: Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors

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Post by Der_Einzige »

r34 wrote: post #2

I wonder if there are any good sets of word vectors in languages other than English (I'm specifically interested in Polish). Same with any other language models and NLP related stuff. It's hard to find anything valuable.

Yeah! Fasttext has some models in polish which I can convert into the magnitude format for you! File an issue for it and I'll get it done

Re: Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors

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Der_Einzige wrote: post #3
r34 wrote: post #2

I wonder if there are any good sets of word vectors in languages other than English (I'm specifically interested in Polish). Same with any other language models and NLP related stuff. It's hard to find anything valuable.

Yeah! Fasttext has some models in polish which I can convert into the magnitude format for you! File an issue for it and I'll get it done

Thanks for answering :) I have never heard about Fasttext - I will take a look.

Re: Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors

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Post by nestorD »

r34 wrote: post #2

I wonder if there are any good sets of word vectors in languages other than English (I'm specifically interested in Polish). Same with any other language models and NLP related stuff. It's hard to find anything valuable.

As another poster said, yes : you can find good word vectors for most languages.

Furthermore, given a copy of the text from wikipedia, it only takes 2 days of computation on a laptop with a modern GPU to regenerate them from scratch for any language having a wikipedia (I did that using two R packages a few years ago, I expect that it would be even simpler nowadays).

Re: Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors

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Post by nathell »

r34 wrote: post #2

I wonder if there are any good sets of word vectors in languages other than English (I'm specifically interested in Polish). Same with any other language models and NLP related stuff. It's hard to find anything valuable.

Here's a comprehensive list of Polish NLP resources: http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/

I don't think there's been much happening around word vectors specifically, but it's still worth knowing about.

Re: Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors

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Post by amrrs »

r34 wrote: post #2

I wonder if there are any good sets of word vectors in languages other than English (I'm specifically interested in Polish). Same with any other language models and NLP related stuff. It's hard to find anything valuable.

Something for Indian languages - https://github.com/indicnlp/

Re: Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors

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Post by r34 »

nathell wrote: post #6
r34 wrote: post #2

I wonder if there are any good sets of word vectors in languages other than English (I'm specifically interested in Polish). Same with any other language models and NLP related stuff. It's hard to find anything valuable.

Here's a comprehensive list of Polish NLP resources: http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/ I don't think there's been much happening around word vectors specifically, but it's still worth knowing about.

Thank you! I will have a look :)

Re: Show HN: Language games – simple games made with word vectors

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Post by PaulHoule »

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #7

"Competative" word guessing? (And it's "pedant", not "pendant").

Yep, like most projects that use embeddings it doesn't seem that smart when you look closely. It does "better than chance" but that's not a high standard!
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