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EmilyReif committed May 3, 2019
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<br> waterfall of meaning
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Language is subtle. Words may have multiple meanings and the same word can be used in different ways. This
flexibility speaks to the richness of human language, full of associations and subtext. We may subconsciously
consider certain words to be new or old, good or bad, male or female. When machines "read" text--from books,
articles, letters--they start to learn how language is used and to pick up on the multiple associations that may
exist. For example: how are the words "caviar" and "pizza" used? Do they show up in the same context? Are they
used in the same way? Waterfall of Meaning uses technology called 'word embeddings' to analyse millions of
existing English sentences and map words' meaning based on their use. When a word crosses one of the axes, its
location shows where it falls on the spectrum: more or less male or female, for instance.
flexibility speaks to the richness of human language, full of associations and subtext.
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Subconsciously, we consider certain words to be new or old, good or bad, male or female. When machines “read”
text--from books, articles, letters--they start to learn how language is used and pick up on the multiple
associations that may exist. For example: how are the words “caviar” and “pizza” used? Do they show up in the
same contexts frequently? Are they used in the same way? Waterfall of Meaning uses technology called ‘word
embeddings’ to analyse millions of existing English sentences and map words’ meaning based on their use. When a
word crosses an axis, its location shows where it falls on the spectrum - for instance, is “caviar” more male or
female, based on this data?
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To this end, any biases that are found in the data will be reflected in the model as well. For this reason, it's
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