Word2Vec Explained

Word2Vec is a recent breakthrough in the world of NLP. Tomas Mikolov a Czech computer scientist and currently a researcher at CIIRC ( Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics) was one of the leading contributors towards the research and implementation of word2vec. Word embeddings are an integral part of solving many problems in NLP. They depict how humans understand language to a machine. You can imagine them as a vectorized representation of text.