Interesting AI/ML Articles On Medium This Week (Dec 5)

George Pipis provides a very high-level introduction to the world of word encoding within NLP. This article includes information on methods leveraged for encoding words in Natural Language Processing tasks. It also consists of the advantages and disadvantages of traditional approaches to word encoding such as One-hot encoding and more modern and rich techniques such as Word Embedding. Highly recommended read, as this article can serve as both a refresher for seasons NLP practitioners, or act as a taster to the world of word encoding for readers starting their learning journey into NLP related topics. George also cleverly Illustrates the shortcomings of the traditional methods of word encoding in order to directly provide a case for the introduction of more approaches that capture context and word relations within sentences.