Word2Vec is exciting because of its result, not particularly its method. This paper is a pretty straight forward extension of word2vec by combining it's 'unsupe

Word2Vec is exciting because of its result, not particularly its method. This paper is a pretty straight forward extension of word2vec by combining it's 'unsupervised' result with various labels to make it more useful. You can think of word2vec as a kind of independent representation of language (which is a stretch for the purists but for sake of conversation I think it's okay) that can be applied to various domains by 'supervising' it.