Comment on One slur to rule them all
starik@lemmy.zip 1 day agoSo the x-axis should be the same as the y-axis in this case?
How do you calculate the cosine of a slur? Is that the joke?
Comment on One slur to rule them all
starik@lemmy.zip 1 day agoSo the x-axis should be the same as the y-axis in this case?
How do you calculate the cosine of a slur? Is that the joke?
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.
Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.
And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.
So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.