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Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by bfLives »

Alifatisk wrote: post #18
nikolay wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Case matters, obviously! Try "man" with a lower-case "M"!

Why does case matter? How does it affect the meaning?

“Man” is probably being interpreted as the Isle of Man.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by lightyrs »

I don't get it but I'm not sure I'm supposed to.

    life + death = mortality
    life - death = lifestyle

    drug + time = occasion
    drug - time = narcotic

    art + artist + money = creativity
    art + artist - money = muse

    happiness + politics = contentment
    happiness + art      = gladness
    happiness + money    = joy
    happiness + love     = joy

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by G1N »

Alifatisk wrote: post #18
nikolay wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Case matters, obviously! Try "man" with a lower-case "M"!

Why does case matter? How does it affect the meaning?

Man (capital M) is probably being interpreted as some proper noun, maybe Isle of Man in this case?

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by spindump8930 »

First off, this interface is very nice and a pleasure to use, congrats!

Are you using word2vec for these, or embeddings from another model?

I also wanted to add some flavor since it looks like many folks in this thread haven't seen something like this - it's been known since 2013 that we can do this (but it's great to remind folks especially with all the "modern" interest in NLP).

It's also known (in some circles!) that a lot of these vector arithmetic things need some tricks to really shine. For example, excluding the words already present in the query[1]. Others in this thread seem surprised at some of the biases present - there's also a long history of work on that [2,3].

[1] https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/king-man-woman-king-9a7fd2935...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09866

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03862

Re: Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)

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Post by rpastuszak »

nxa wrote: post #13
cabalamat wrote: post #10

What does it mean when it surrounds a word in red? Is this signalling an error?

Yes, word in red = word not found mostly the case when you try plurals or non-nouns (for now)

This is neat!

I think you need to disable auto-capitalisation because on mobile the first word becomes uppercase and triggers a validation error.

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