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Reddit, Jane Austen, and vector spaces
Oliver Baumann
Round Table of RDM — 19th July 2022
Context matters!
Word embeddings
- Distributional semantics: a term’s meaning is influenced from surrounding words
- numeric representation of text, usually as vectors
- vectors of words with similar meaning are also close in representation-space
- algebraic operations: \(\vec{King} + \vec{Woman} = \vec{Queen}\)
he married a more amiable woman, he might have been
he married a more amiable woman, he might have been
he married a more amiable woman, he might have been
he married a more amiable woman, he might have been
to wish to marry a woman who had not either a
was a very cheerful agreeable woman, he hoped the young
Case study
Jane Austen
- Sense & Sensibility
- Pride & Prejudice
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
- Northanger Abbey
- Persuasion
- /r/TwoXChromosomes
- /r/OneY
- /r/ainbow
- /r/Equality
- /r/ConservativeLadies
- /r/Feminism
- /r/BlackHair
- /r/brownbeauty
- /r/blackgirls
- /r/blackladies
Woman
Austen
Black
Austen
Kiss
Austen
Networks and context
Thanks!
@olibaumann
oliver.baumann@uni-bayreuth.de