How Luminoso made ConceptNet into the best word vectors, and won at SemEval

I have been telling people for a while that ConceptNet is a valuable source of information for semantic vectors, or "word embeddings" as they've been called since the neural-net people showed up in 2013 and renamed everything. Let's call them "word vectors", even though they can represent phrases too. The idea is to compute a vector space where similar vectors represent words or phrases with similar meanings. In particular, I've been pointing to results showing that our precomputed vectors, ConceptNet Numberbatch, are the state of the art in multiple languages. Now we've verified this by participating in SemEval 2017 Task 2, "Multilingual and Cross-lingual Semantic Word Similarity", and winning in a landslide. SemEval is a long-running evaluation of computational semantics.