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Here is a map of the region where the civilisation flourished. ![]() In this way, we can train the network to learn representations for words that show up in similar contexts.The Babylonians lived in Mesopotamia, a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. ![]() Here, we pass in a word and try to predict the words surrounding it in the text. ![]() In this implementation, we'll be using the skip-gram architecture because it performs better than CBOW. There are two architectures for implementing word2vec, CBOW (Continuous Bag-Of-Words) and Skip-gram. Words that show up in similar contexts, such as "black", "white", and "red" will have vectors near each other. These vectors also contain semantic information about the words. The word2vec algorithm finds much more efficient representations by finding vectors that represent the words. Trying to one-hot encode these words is massively inefficient, you'll have one element set to 1 and the other 50,000 set to 0. 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